On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:33:33 +0900, Declan Murphy
<declan_murphy@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>-- 
>"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying 
>to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor 
>I against them. They are "only doing their duty", as the saying goes. 
>Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who 
>would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other 
>hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed 
>bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. He is serving his 
>country, which has the power to absolve him from evil"  - George Orwell, 
>England Your England, 1941

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

        -- Randall Jarrell


War sucks.




--

Michael Cash



"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College


http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/