<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Long before nuclear weapons, states having more armed men in the field lost battles and wars. That was never a guarantee of victory in battle or in wars. Often it lulled one side into thinking they would win or wouldn't be attacked because they had the larger numbers on their side. dan</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Just think of all the wars fought between France and England and today there is no territory in France that belongs to England and vice versa. What an enormous waste of men, materials and money. All for royal spite. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">My Dad was in WWI - born 1997</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">bill w</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class=""><div>On Jun 20, 2016, at 8:34 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] quote of the day<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">"Oh how I hate to get up in the morning,<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Oh how I'd love to remain in bed ..........."<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71smG5d29to" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71smG5d29to</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It wouldn’t hurt us a bit to ponder once in a while how things have changed. In the generation of our grandparents (some of us) WW2 was being fought while they were draft age. So different it was before nuclear weapons changed the usual equation: more armed men on the field meant victory in battle. So foreign to our way of thinking it is now: any foreign power could show up with sufficient numbers, you are dead.</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><br></span><div>Long before nuclear weapons, states having more armed men in the field lost battles and wars. That was never a guarantee of victory in battle or in wars. Often it lulled one side into thinking they would win or wouldn't be attacked because they had the larger numbers on their side.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> Sample my latest Kindle book, "The Late Mr. Gurlitt," at:</span></div><a dir="ltr" href="http://mybook.to/Gurlitt" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://mybook.to/Gurlitt</font></a></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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