There was no hands-across-the-sea Lafayette stuff about us Americans who joined the Foreign Legion in Paris when the war broke out. We just wanted to get right close and see some of the fun, and we didn’t mind taking a few risks, as most of us had led a pretty rough sort of life as long as we could remember.
(more…)My first and most poignant recollection of the thousands of Americans caught in France at the outbreak of war is in connection with a cable containing some five thousand of their names, which was killed by the censor on the ground that it was code.
(more…)An audience member once asked Ayn Rand what did she think about the killing of innocent people in war.
This is how she answered.
(more…)The IDF has released footage from the perspective of a Hamas terrorist who shot up a kibbutz and then went to Muslim heaven where he will be rewarded with 72 virgins.
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