Steve wrote in message <37930F97.6C6D at armory.com>...
>Ken Collins wrote:
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>> i'm a trying-to-be-devout-but-most-often-failing Roman Catholic. if you
want
>> me to go on and on about substantiated miracles, i will, but since i'm
>> reading a book about the life of Sgt. Alvin C. York (by John Perry; i
>> reccommend this book to all), i'll discuss things in terms of his
personal
>> experience.
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>We all have seen this hacknied old jerker movie. It's boring. All you
>have shown is that you, for illogical reasons, have adopted a load of
>human-contrived crap and dogma as the absolute truth. York was a dunce.
>That war was even stupider than Vietnam.
while the movie, which i've also viewed, did take 'artistic license', the
28-35 machine guns were verified to have been in-place on hill 223 in the
Argonne.
Sgt. York saw the 'hand of God' in his survival, so did his superiors in the
Army, according to their own statements, and so do i... one has to know what
a machine gun can do to get a feel for this position.
i deliberately chose Sgt. York's experience because it was set on the
battlefield... the most un-Godly circumstance that ever exists on the face
of the planet... yet, in it, i see the 'hand of God reaching out to' one
whose Faith was absolute.
all war is 'stupid'.
i assure you, your 'pity' is wasted on me. i Choose to be where i am... as
Sgt. York realized, "Blessed be the peacemakers"... nothing in it that says
facing 'machine guns' is 'fun'.
cheers, ken collins
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