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>Subject: Regarding Bob K.
>Date: Wed, May 23, 2001, 7:46 AM
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> "These fought in any case,
>   and some believing,
>             pro domo, in any case...
>
> Some quick to arm,
> some for adventure,
> some from fear of weakness,
> some from fear of censure,
> some for love of slaughter, in imagination,
> learning later...
> some in fear, learning love of slaughter;" (Pound)
>
> Thank, Charles, for cutting through the slag with EP's words.  The ex-Senator
> is a friend of mine, and I can say with no hesitation that he, like most
> soldiers, entered the fray for reasons that are an vague but powerful mixture
> of the kinds of motives Pound identifies.  He did, however, never learn to
> love slaughter, in fact, has spent his life recoiling from it, as witnessed
> by his devotion to the anti-war activities that continue to this day.
> Jay

Always better late than never. "Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'..." nonetheless

Charles