Re: Thought for the Day

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: Hi Sarah,

: Any person...soldier, Indian or warrior of any type...knowing he was going into combat knew, also, that he may not survive it. There are no guarantees that one will always survive. Sure, if he was fortunate enough to survive, he was a "hero" and a greater warrior. He was still a terrorist....by definition and by action, and quite successful at it. Put yourself on the receiving end. Feel what it was like.

: Kamikazees? No...that is a Japanese "inventon" of fairly recent times. Their sole purpose was not just to die, but to die while killing as many of their MILITARY enemies as they could, and was born out of desperation as their military machine was systematically destroyed by us. That war was already lost when they started that tactic.

: These modern-day terrorists have taken it one step further...to include civilians as primary targets.

: I would never allude to you as naive or uneducated...far from it!!
: Pax aye!

: Seamus
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: : Dear Seamus,

: : Call me naive but I have a hard time believing even the Indians went after their fellows or the whites with the sole purpose of dying while killing their enemy!!  Fighting yes, dying no.  Call me uneducated but I would have thought they expected to return to the campfires and be the center of the celebrations in person.  Were they really kamikazees???

: : Sarah M.

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: : : :  Could this have happened 250 years ago in the time period we all study so much or is this a new phenomenon??

: : : : LHK,
: : : : Sarah M.

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: : : Sarah, my friend,

: : : You bet it could ...and did happen then....they were called Indians...One only need read of the raids that were made into the settled areas, and against the lonely cabins out in the wilderness to understand that that was terrorism, pure and simple. The faces were different, the cause was different, but the result was the same...they struck terror into the hearts of those who were not their targets and the result here in the Susquehanna Valley was that every settler in the Valley for 60 miles north and west of Fort Augusta fled their homes and farms and came to Augusta and on south to Harris Ferry and Fort Hunter until it was safe several years later to return. Some would never return...they were that terrified. I point you to the Mohawk River Valley, places like  Cherry Valley, Canajoharie, Fort Klock and others in that corridor, in addition to my Susquehanna Valley. 

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: : : Pax aye!
: : : Seamus



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