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Skriven 2005-11-01 09:15:23 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 15351 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: God save the Queen
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01 Nov 05 13:55, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Roy Witt:


 MvdV>>>>> Whoever indoctrinated Frank sure did a good job... ;-)

 >>>> The rest of us know you guys are full of shit and won't bother
 >>>> to enlighten you. Besides, Frank is doing a good job of telling
 >>>> it like it was back then. Dossche is just reading it from books.

 MvdV>>> In a war they never tell the true story to the man in the field.
 MvdV>>> They just tell him what he needs to know or what he needs to
 MvdV>>> believe.

 >> That may be the case in urope, but it's not so with the GIs here.

 MvdV> Oh, c'mon that has been the case ever since man started living in
 MvdV> tribes.

The US isn't in the dark ages.

 MvdV> Good soldiers do not ask akward questons, they follow orders. They
 MvdV> are /selected/ on that. They believe what they are told to believe.

Unlike their euro counterparts, they don't blindly follow along.

 MvdV> I am sure Frank was a good soldier.

He's a survivor, that's for sure.

 >> They'll know pretty much in advance as to what's going on, if not
 >> then, they'll know soon enough.

 MvdV> Impossible.

Ever heard of mission briefing? This is where the grunts are informed as
to what the mission is about, where they're going and what they're about
to do.

 MvdV>  Many facts only emerge after archives from both sides open up and
 MvdV> that doesn't happen until decades after the hostilities have
 MvdV> ceased.

See above.

 MvdV>>> For the true story he must wait a couple of decades and read the
 MvdV>>> books.

 >> Yes, that's left for those of us who weren't involved.

 MvdV> One can not see the larger picture from the bottom of a trench.

That'd be WW1, not WW2...


Roy
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