why always WWIII

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by Red Brow

Why are all the Web worry warts always crying about the coming of WWIII?

I think the composers of got it about right.

[Catfish]

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Watch World War three
on pay TV
before your televison melts awaayyy


Thanks very much

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

I think the composers of got it about right.

THAT. WAS. EPIC.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

I know Vietnam vets that see the war many different ways some see the entire thing as having been a mistake others feel like the leadership got it wrong others feel that the protesters made us loose.

I'm one of the ones who feels that we should never have been there at all. We went in to prop up the losing side of a general election, and supported a dictator simply because he was our dictator and not a Godless Communist. When he tried to go his own way we helped a newer dictator assassinate the first one. It was a mess from the beginning and we didn't learn the lesson from the French experience a decade earlier, and we didn't learn the lesson we handed to the British back in 1812.

On the other hand I used to have a friend who was a combat infantryman in Vietnam, and very nearly killed there, who insisted that we should have won and shown them all what for. We used to have some great discussions.

Another friend's dad was a highly decorated WW2 and Korean vet who had been an 'advisor' in Vietnam in 1960. My friend said he would take his pistol and shoot off his son's big toe before he'd let his son go there.

Originally Posted by Hottentot

I think the composers of got it about right.

WOW! I remember that song! My best friend at the time's dad had that album. I'd forgotten all about it. A little research showed me an entertaining side-fact: The author of that song and the others on the record was also the man who wrote the score for Mary Poppins! Thanks, Mister H!

On the other hand we had our own 'anti' song, and it became a classic.

[Hottentot]

Err, actually it was Penguin who sent me some great songs, including , for my class this week, and I just surfed on from there, finding all those CDS songs from Youtube's links. One of them was that, and it instantly became my favorite due to still being relevant today. I recommend listening to the other songs on that list as well.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

On the other hand we had our own 'anti' song, and it became a classic.

Small world. I played that to the pupils too, but on the other hand, was also on the playlist. What confuses me even more is that Marty Robbins is also singer in the song which I learned to like in Fallout: New Vegas' soundtrack.

Sheesh, I really need to go and start that topic on political music here one of these days...

[mapuc]

I thought it was Germany that declared war on USA and not the other way

Markus

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by mapuc

I thought it was Germany that declared war on USA and not the other way

In World War 2, yes. In World War 1, no. In January 1917 Hindenburg and Ludendorff convinced the Kaiser that they had to resume the unrestricted submarine war, then tried to convince Mexico to enter the war on the Central side. The discovery of this plus the sinking of five American merchants caused public outrage in the US, and President Wilson asked Congress to declare war, coining the phrase "...make the world safe for democracy." America declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917.

[Oberon]

Arthur Zimmermann has a lot to answer for.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

Err, actually it was Penguin

But you're the one who posted it here, so kudos go to you.

My dad was a huge Marty Robbins fan back in the day, and 'Big Iron' was one of his favorites. of course he also wrote the legendary 'El Paso', but that's getting further off topic.