tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post5356920270604215894..comments2024-03-14T11:09:32.759-05:00Comments on Falkenblog: Strange Bedfellows IndeedEric Falkensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07243687157322033496noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-29664364618520763532010-06-12T05:40:41.008-05:002010-06-12T05:40:41.008-05:00Soldiers are trying first and all to survive. Most...Soldiers are trying first and all to survive. Most soldiers never fire their weapons. Aggression is the last thing in their minds.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05676167615981895061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-49154148585766696082010-06-11T23:29:42.317-05:002010-06-11T23:29:42.317-05:00It's not strange at all. Soldiers in combat, a...It's not strange at all. Soldiers in combat, as Junger noted, are willing to risk their lives for each other. That's a sort of selflessness and fellowship that's rare in peacetime outside of religious communities.<br /><br />Junger's also not the first writer to make the connection. See, for example, the soldier-poet Wilfred Owen's <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Apologia_Pro_Poemate_Meo" rel="nofollow"><i>Apologia Pro Poemate Meo</i></a>Dave Pinsenhttp://steamcatapult.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-39038007619248103202010-06-11T09:36:23.020-05:002010-06-11T09:36:23.020-05:00Strange comment.
I would have thought the *real* ...Strange comment.<br /><br />I would have thought the *real* heart of combat is trying to end the life of, or incapacitate, someone else.Stevenoreply@blogger.com