I was impressed with the landing on the Hudson River, and more impressed that the pilot hasn't been all over television talking about it. My father was a pilot and made some of the softest landings I have ever had, in some of the finest farmland in America. But I was thinking that there are thousands of professionals in their work that could do it even when everything goes bad, and if they can't they still die trying to do it right.
I went to see Defiance today, a movie from a time long ago, and far away. Still, I liked the movie, and understand the critics - but then they never lived in a time when people die beside you, behind you and in droves, they haven't lived with the lie that being a Jew means you are inferior and won't fight, they haven't lived with the lie that hiding will keep you safe, which is as bad as the one that says fighting will keep you safe. I will have to try and read the book, because the movie doesn't tell me enough about the brothers and what they did to survive and save 1200, not an insignificant number when people are dying by the millions. Having studied some about resistance and guerrilla warfare I want to know about the tactics. I have laughed too long about the survivalists that I think have little training in combat operations, but then I could be wrong. I have been so before. And then they came to America and built a life and a trucking company?
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Brother, I finally caught up with your last 2 weeks of blogs. Some comments about them and their respective comments. I may not be pro-gun, but I refuse to be called a member of the Brady bunch. I do shoot bows, and I can do that very well when I have time and equipment with which to practice. I am also not anti-gun; I am just anti-psycho people getting guns easily. Everyone else can have them as long as they get the training that you emphasize so much. I really trust you and those who read your blogs. They are good people, not crazy people. As for me, having never gotten training except on my husband's air rifle, I'll stick to a bow because I know how to use that properly. (I don't even know where the safety is on a handgun. True story.)
Earl's rule about weapons, read the instructions first, don't pick up other people's weapons without their permission - living in areas that provide baited booby-trapped stuff is good for grooming paranoia. Remember that no matter how safe and what color (pink?) and name one calls them (revolver, pistol, antique musket, or ol' Betsy) they will remain WEAPONS and do kill.
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