[Jared at Pelican Parts]

Originally posted by svandamme
how would that be a political thought? i didn't comment on politics at all

so you were in the military , good for you.
where you in the ***** at some point?
shelled? bombed? shot? gassed?

i've never been in the military , i don't want to , i fail to see the fun in getting shot at, and as "what would i know if i wasn't in the military?"

i was born in Ypres, maybe the Big War is over for 80 years now
but everywhere i looked when growning up , i saw proof of dead people

Well said. I have been to Ypres, and I know of what you speak.

My grandparents never let me forget the horrors of war. They were unfortunate enough to live in Arnhem and Nijmegen, Netherlands. These towns were of great strategic importance to the Nazis.

They were not called to fight. They had to fight to survive when the government laid down like pansies. They took it upon themselves to build an army of peers. They hid their friends in attics. They hunted and killed Wermacht and SS with little more than piano wire. They had no choice.

The previous statement really pisses me off as I have friends in Iraq being shot at on a daily basis, while I do what I can to help out their families.

I may have not fought in a war, but I know and have seen in person where they lived, what they went through, and understand the ramifications of this current situation and it scares me.