In article <47e2bef4$0$846$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>,
j.murphy@libertysurf.fr says...
> Amethyst Deceiver wrote:
> > In article ,
> > anarchSPAMKILLER@ntlworld.com says...
> >> On 19 Mar 2008 23:16:13 GMT, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I don't dispute their bravery.
> >>
> >> Nor I. But my experience has always been that bravery indicates a
> >> lack of understanding of the risks inherent in any given situation.
> >
> > My mum and dad, having seen their parents serve in WW2, knew exactly
> > what the risks were
>
> Hmm...I'm not sure that there were anywhere near as many risks in
> peacetime UK than in a world at war. Skirmishes here and there, Aden,
> Kenya and stuff but not close to a certainty that you would be sent into
> the battlefield as was the case in WWII
My father joined up as a boy soldier, in 1946. Peace was a very new and
fragile thing. Korea started in 1950. |