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Re: Das Boot Question
Posted by:
Dan Odenweller
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Date: July 27, 2004 05:27PM
Is there a good way to die?
Stuck on the bottom with no way back would be awful, but consider -
Trapped in the belly turret of a B-17 spiralling in after a wing is shot off, or
Trapped in a Tiger tank which is burning in a sea of spinning gasoline drums sent down by Henry Fonda, or
Stuck in a P-38 with a canopy that won't open and one engine and wing gone, or
Caught in a cave on Iwo Jima when a USMC flamethrower or white phosphorus round hits you, and finally
Scrambling out of the engine room of a sinking aviation gas tanker which has taken a couple of torpedos.
I doubt than in the end, they are any worse than Hiroshima, Nagasaki or Dresden. Movies have brought us the sense of the horror, enough so for me to wish for:
"peace on earth, and goodwill to all mankind." Let it end here, today.
Dan Odenweller
Stuck on the bottom with no way back would be awful, but consider -
Trapped in the belly turret of a B-17 spiralling in after a wing is shot off, or
Trapped in a Tiger tank which is burning in a sea of spinning gasoline drums sent down by Henry Fonda, or
Stuck in a P-38 with a canopy that won't open and one engine and wing gone, or
Caught in a cave on Iwo Jima when a USMC flamethrower or white phosphorus round hits you, and finally
Scrambling out of the engine room of a sinking aviation gas tanker which has taken a couple of torpedos.
I doubt than in the end, they are any worse than Hiroshima, Nagasaki or Dresden. Movies have brought us the sense of the horror, enough so for me to wish for:
"peace on earth, and goodwill to all mankind." Let it end here, today.
Dan Odenweller