tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post584278951899303604..comments2024-03-28T09:32:13.767-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: Sir, The Men are Hungry...OldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-54454167853350771632020-08-26T09:38:23.005-07:002020-08-26T09:38:23.005-07:00Without the concepts of good and evil, what is the...Without the concepts of good and evil, what is the point of religion?<br /><br />Just something to chew on. (In my world view, God and religion are two separate things, which confuses me at times.)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-38477507228182856002020-08-26T09:36:47.322-07:002020-08-26T09:36:47.322-07:00Recruiters should face court martial for such thin...Recruiters should face court martial for such things. It's been going on for quite a while now. If we are that desperate for recruits, we are doing something very wrong.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-35011487271828413522020-08-26T09:34:56.381-07:002020-08-26T09:34:56.381-07:00Concur.Concur.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-80753413564866414852020-08-26T09:21:11.639-07:002020-08-26T09:21:11.639-07:00The thing we all recoil from is the fact that we a...The thing we all recoil from is the fact that we all have free will and we all have the capacity to do evil and to good. None of us are immune to this reality. It behooves each of us to continually revisit and understand how and why we choose to undertake actions. In truth, the notion that there are good people and bad people is one of the most terrifying ideas we ape lizards have ever come up with.<br /><br />Another fantastic installment Sarge!PrairieAdventurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466447251827774900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-52220142431815886172020-08-26T05:07:46.806-07:002020-08-26T05:07:46.806-07:00Anon I hope you are right. My favorite Army medic...Anon I hope you are right. My favorite Army medic said the amount of gang tattoos in his platoon in basic was more than a few. Heard them joking about taking their training back to the gang. I really hope you are right.STxARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04588850178293194825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-27443662660937521492020-08-26T05:05:36.208-07:002020-08-26T05:05:36.208-07:00Evil is as evil does. Just because the mob is doi...Evil is as evil does. Just because the mob is doing it, and they get carried away with it, doesn't give them a pass for booting some poor guy in the head. Or dragging someone out of a truck and beating them withing an inch of their life. Nuremburg trials for the lot... STxARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04588850178293194825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-79259140904224229412020-08-26T04:15:49.080-07:002020-08-26T04:15:49.080-07:00So far the Allies have behaved, after a fashion.So far the Allies have behaved, after a fashion.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-17143424497627914112020-08-25T20:17:54.007-07:002020-08-25T20:17:54.007-07:00Ugliness is an understatement. While I'm not ...Ugliness is an understatement. While I'm not naive to think our own soldiers never killed the innocent so coldly and indiscriminately, I'm glad it's the Germans you're showing. Sauer is not only heartless, but hungry as well, which makes for an even colder combination. As bad as he and some Germans were, the Japanese were even worse. <br /><br />If you have shown the other side, I wouldn't know it as I'm not current with all the chapters you've written. I'm drowning in emails for that group I now lead this year so I often have to forgo time here at the Chant. I'll have to go back to it when I find time. Tunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04930237104692982421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-18232228808777021712020-08-25T18:43:02.360-07:002020-08-25T18:43:02.360-07:00😁😁OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-89178560963923276502020-08-25T18:24:25.857-07:002020-08-25T18:24:25.857-07:00Not alone by a long way, would be my guess.
--Tenn...Not alone by a long way, would be my guess.<br />--Tennessee BuddAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-53656352821047267882020-08-25T17:16:59.160-07:002020-08-25T17:16:59.160-07:00Thanks!Thanks!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-4551157240123302262020-08-25T17:16:51.349-07:002020-08-25T17:16:51.349-07:00And it was so arbitrary.And it was so arbitrary.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-74039958593063618002020-08-25T17:16:37.586-07:002020-08-25T17:16:37.586-07:00I don't think you're alone around here!I don't think you're alone around here!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-79965861754410823312020-08-25T16:44:13.216-07:002020-08-25T16:44:13.216-07:00Wow. Powerful, thought provoking read. Thanks Sa...Wow. Powerful, thought provoking read. Thanks Sarge.Toirdhealbheach Beucailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872794169534403463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-43537630142624698612020-08-25T13:49:37.616-07:002020-08-25T13:49:37.616-07:00I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that ...I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that reads a good book over and over and over.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-11983050857308365032020-08-25T12:43:26.290-07:002020-08-25T12:43:26.290-07:00That reminded me of the cruelty of the Nazis round...That reminded me of the cruelty of the Nazis rounding up innocent people to shoot them. If I lost a loved one that way, if I hadn't already been in the Resistance, I would be. <br />Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05720206407574457665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-47127678247086105772020-08-25T12:34:16.617-07:002020-08-25T12:34:16.617-07:00There's always that possibility. But a farmer ...There's always that possibility. But a farmer who spends much of his time drunk, alone and no doubt bitter. Who knows if the locals will be suspicious. He also goes to the village periodically to sell eggs and whatever else he can harvest from his fields. He also buys wine, sometimes cognac. So he would be missed within a day or so. We shall see.<br /><br />Reference <i>Red Storm Rising</i> and I'm all ears, I've probably read that six times over the years. Might be time to read it again!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-58866534598471446212020-08-25T12:07:25.191-07:002020-08-25T12:07:25.191-07:00That burning of the house ,might bite our plucky G...That burning of the house ,might bite our plucky Germans in the ass. The lone farmer was unlikely to be visited by anyone for a quite bit of time, but now everyone in few miles range will converge and someone might discover knife wound - or any other trace of Germans, or just run into them. <br />Reminds me if the Red Storm Rising when similar outfit of runaway US Marines ambushed some Soviet paratroops on Iceland and faked car crash, but did not deceive Soviets who had good forensic doctor as local surgeon.<br />Paweł Kasperekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17636249014878876718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-69994587824248000822020-08-25T09:58:59.808-07:002020-08-25T09:58:59.808-07:00Thanks Beans.
Sauer is a type, the kind of man so...Thanks Beans.<br /><br />Sauer is a type, the kind of man some people would be uncomfortable with, but he does what needs doing.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-7577531973299897432020-08-25T09:57:09.891-07:002020-08-25T09:57:09.891-07:00Sauer's not a bad man, just a hard man.Sauer's not a bad man, just a hard man.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-31836563596345678052020-08-25T09:29:26.295-07:002020-08-25T09:29:26.295-07:00Sauer is... Sauer. I've known a few pig farme...Sauer is... Sauer. I've known a few pig farmers and other meat growers. They all can click on the 'this is not folk' button and do what they need to do. But they all do it with minimal fuss and muss. Seen one hardened pig farmer broken down in tears because one pig gutted another, and he had to go in and finish the job. But he (to 'normal' people) easily selected and butchered on a regular business.<br /><br />The world needs people like Sauer. Just in controlled places. Given free reign to an open society and mess with everything, that's when you get a sour Sauer.<br /><br />Some people are just good at killing. Doesn't make them bad, unless they're doing it for all the wrong reasons. Who knows, if Sauer survives to the end of the war, he might actually do better in reconstruction than many. He'll just go back to pig farming and working with pigs. It's the other ones, like the Leutnant, who never really thought of where things came from, that will have a difficult time rebuilding a country from the ground up while having various military and civilian boots on their necks (especially if they don't return to a US controlled sector.)<br /><br />Very engrossing tale. Man's gotta eat, or man's gonna die. <br /><br />And, in a weird way, as horrible as what Sauer did was, he did to the French man what the French man couldn't. He released him from a suffering end. Dying alone of alcohol poisoning would have been much worse.<br /><br />What seems cruel is kind. What seems kind is cruel. War, glorious in books and film and from a distance, is messy. You capture this very well.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-31058562915767195972020-08-25T09:07:35.247-07:002020-08-25T09:07:35.247-07:00Hey AFSarge;
Shows the ugly side of War, a...Hey AFSarge;<br /><br /> Shows the ugly side of War, and Sauer and people like him is destined not to survive the War or the Peace afterwards, people like that don't play well when a country is trying to rebuild. Sauer killing the Frenchman was almost a mercy killing as it were in this case. MrGarabaldihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05768774166065615995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-84491178403912577452020-08-25T07:36:41.401-07:002020-08-25T07:36:41.401-07:00Wrong part of France.Wrong part of France.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-28114737397172463422020-08-25T07:36:20.833-07:002020-08-25T07:36:20.833-07:00Yes, there are evil ones among the mob, most are u...Yes, there are evil ones among the mob, most are unwitting dupes. People in crowds can act very badly and still not really be evil, just unthinking. Which is, in a way, evil.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-57946891358715838202020-08-25T06:30:25.688-07:002020-08-25T06:30:25.688-07:00I wonder if there trek ends with meeting Mr. Kowal...I wonder if there trek ends with meeting Mr. Kowalski?SCOTTtheBADGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12859188068159799373noreply@blogger.com