19-01-2005, 03:54 PM
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@Dec 3 2004, 05:36 PM
Sapper, I know how you feel. Some guy in an armchair, sipping his bourbon, watching a documentary on TV, becomes an instant expert on what you lived through after watching 20 minutes of said documentary. Walter Lord said it best in his book on the Titanic, "After the sinking, the bronzed men of the sea were replaced by a pallid cast cast of journalists, investigators, and ultimately, historians."
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thats me
Ok not quite- I try hard not to be like that
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| It's all right, I'm part of that "pallid cast," myself. Speaking of alleged historians, You should read the memoirs of American Civil War generals. They showed more energy in denouncing each other for their own failures than in some of the battles they lost. One pair of Union Civil War generals of very high rank could not get along because one insulted the other when both were superintendents of the Quicksilver Silver Mine in California two decades before. So bronzed heros aren't always. 
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