Remember when war was courteous?

[ryoder 1,590]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2410059/WW1-soldier-released-German-prison-camp-dying-mother-Kaiser-promise-returned-cell--did.html

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[akarunway 1]

And your thoughts on the impending Syrian attack? WW3? To bad I'm banned from SC.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

[shropshire 0]

Jolly good show. What a thoroughly decent chap.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[NorrinRadd 0]

Yep. Once we had honour in war. Now it is drones and WMD and corporate prioroties.

Why drive myself crazy trying to be normal, when I am already at crazy?

[JohnMitchell 16]

NorrinRadd

Yep. Once we had honour in war. Now it is drones and WMD and corporate prioroties.

War has always been and always will be harsh and brutal. Yet there have always been amazing acts of kindness and grace in any theater of battle. I feel our current service men and women of the highest caliber of warriors to ever be fielded. Almost all of them adhere to the highest standard of honor.

[NorrinRadd 0]

I have no way to compare, but I have no doubt that ever age and generation has had its honorable warriors, and its brutal tyrants and killers.
THESE days, though, the warrior is slowly being taken out of the equation. It is slowly becoming impersonal, robotic, and more destructive than ever. I would almost prefer the humans be left in... at least they can show mercy.

Why drive myself crazy trying to be normal, when I am already at crazy?

[shropshire 0]

shropshire

Jolly good show. What a thoroughly decent chap.

Of course ... only allowed because he was an officer.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[turtlespeed 226]

shropshire

***Jolly good show. What a thoroughly decent chap.

Of course ... only allowed because he was an officer.

Just a captain. Psshhhwah

Unless he was Royal Navy then that is different.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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[mr2mk1g 10]

I still like the story associated with Douglas Bader when he had to bail out over German teritory (his version is he'd run out of ammo so rammed the Jerry he was dogfighting) and lost a prosthetic leg in the process.

The Germans (on Goering's authority no less) told the Brits about the loss and said that if they gave them a flight plan they would allow a plane in to drop a replacement leg for him by parachute.

RAF said, "thanks but no thanks Fritz, we don't need your permission or safe passage". Then proceeded to fly the replacement leg in, drop it for Bader and continue on to bomb power station.

Just after the war, Bader arranged for a replacement leg for a colleague of the chap who'd kicked off the permission for a leg to be flown in to Bader in the first place as they were now both in British custody.