06-30-2007, 09:03 PM
Poor Julian !!
He seems to be getting rather a pasting here, but I notice most of it is being applied with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight !!
Before I take up the cudgels on his behalf, since it has not been mentioned here yet, I take it most of you are familiar with Gore Vidal's famous novel Julian ?? If not you are in for a treat, as it is well written and thoughtful.
He seems to be getting rather a pasting here, but I notice most of it is being applied with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight !!
Before I take up the cudgels on his behalf, since it has not been mentioned here yet, I take it most of you are familiar with Gore Vidal's famous novel Julian ?? If not you are in for a treat, as it is well written and thoughtful.
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
