Re: Monuments To Courage
I could not have put it better, except to add that he was knocked down by a drunken driver while crossing a street, near the Somme....
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“My hat and scarf Nester”
(Mike Forney)
“And I shall go far and far into the north playing The Great Game”….
(Kipling)
“May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.”
(Alexander The Great)
"In this age, in any age, Napoleon."
(The Duke of Wellington, when asked who was the greatest general of the era)
Last edited by AMC; 2nd February 2014 at 13:13.
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