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  1. Munken

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    "In a war is everything simple, but even the easiest is hard. The difficulties is getting more and makes frictions, that no one can really imagine, that hasn't experienced the war." - Carl von Clausewitz
     
    Munken, Jul 31, 2003
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  2. Kai-Petri

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    Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

    Winston Churchill
     
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    "He was on the ground before I heard the shot."
    "SAVING PRIVATE RYAN"
     
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  4. Kai-Petri

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    Kai-Petri, Aug 4, 2003
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    "War is delightful to those who have no experience of it."

    Desiderius Erasmus

    Later
     
    jpatterson, Aug 4, 2003
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  6. Kai-Petri

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    If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

    Winston Churchill
     
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    KP, you are posting great posts here but I noticed that your post counter is frozen on 3800 !

    You will never catch Carl like that ! [​IMG]
     
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  8. Martin Bull

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    HeHeHe..there is no truth in the rumour that I have found a way to sabotage Kai's post counter...nyuk nyuk nyuk :D :D :D
     
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    The matter is under investigation, Martin. We have to ask you not to leave the Forums while investigations are still going on... ;)
     
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  10. Kai-Petri

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    You too, Brut....ehh Martin!
    :eek: ;)

    Hmmm.Gotta double my postings and see if your method can stand my "windows" blocking your radar...

    ANyway:

    Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

    Winston Churchill

    ;)
     
    Kai-Petri, Aug 6, 2003
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    Field Marshal Erhard Milch said that in Hitler's presence, he felt like

    "a very small boy who has not done his sums properly."
     
    Kai-Petri, Aug 7, 2003
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    "And what would we do with those fighters.."

    Hermann Göring after hearing of planes´ production plans of over 1,000 fighters per month in early 1942.
     
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    Not quiet WW2 but...Churchill and Lady Astor had a spat for many years

    LA..Mr chrchill if you were my husband i would put poison in your coffee..

    WC..Madam if you were my wife i would drink it.

    Nobody could put down like Winston.

    Arm.
     
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    Yes - I love that one ; there's no answer to it ! :cool:
     
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    Believe me, I can have implicit faith in every one of my generals. The idea of officers taking part in such a coup d'etat is unthinkable to us!

    Head of the Rumanian State, Marshal Antonescu, fourteen days before his generals murdered him and sided with the Russians
     
    Kai-Petri, Aug 9, 2003
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    "...was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"

    -John Belushi (from the movie "Animal House")
     
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    Göring had relapsed into his lethargy, and for good. He would not wake up again until he was on trial in Nuremberg.

    Albert Speer in 1943
     
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    Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

    Winston Churchill
     
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    We should never allow the history of this war to convict us of throwing the strategic bomber at the man in the street.

    Ira C. Eaker
     
    Kai-Petri, Aug 12, 2003
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    We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

    George S. Patton
     
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