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Originally posted by Charlatan
I wouldn't say that they fought for our freedom. But I am proud that they were willing to lay their life on the line to liberate others from oppression. It is one thing to defend your own interests, it is entirely another to go out and defend someone else in need.
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It's pretty easy to imagine what the world would be like if the Allies had lost Europe.. Britain would have fallen, and with the Atlantic filled with U-Boat Wolf Packs.. we would have been hard pressed to ever push the Nazi's back..
thankfully there were brave people at the time willing to step up
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"Life is possible only with illusions. And so, the question for the science of mental health must become an absolutely new and revolutionary one, yet one that reflects the essence of the human condition: On what level of illusion does one live?"
-- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
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