They just ride on the back of antique buses. That's a proud, confident face and posture.
I'm puzzled by the tee shirt in the second picture. Is it honorable to blindly follow orders for the sake of they-know-not what? They sure know the country and the people by the time they leave. Ask them what they think of their commanders then.
I'm puzzled by the tee shirt in the second picture. Is it honorable to blindly follow orders for the sake of they-know-not what? They sure know the country and the people by the time they leave. Ask them what they think of their commanders then.
Because they where the lucky ones?
ReplyDeleteMust admit I've never understood that blind devotion to duty.. but then I've never been in the situation where I've had to make that decision!
ReplyDeleteWar makes strange bedfellows at times.
ReplyDeleteSeventy years on, that fellow still carries himself like a soldier.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous bearing.
ReplyDeleteDon't ask. I don't know. And yet if they hadn't, where/what would Europe be now?
Love your photo of the first soldier.
ReplyDeleteDoes that tee shirt mean anything more complicated than "We did our job of going into a country that the US told us to go into, even though we had never been there before and didn't know a soul"?
That photo of the old soldier is a gem Bob.
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