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"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men (And women - FB) stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." – Winston Churchill (miscellaneous quotation, no date)
While we're clearing up myths, Churchill never said that, see:
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/07/rough-men/
I initially searched for the source of that quote and found it at a site of mis-quotes. Perhaps that's why is included the qualifiers of miscellaneous and no date.
I appreciate the footer on a friend's signature:
The internet: a million threads, a trillion lies. I try separate the wheat from the chaff before posting; the problem is the deluge of information that the internet now offers. One of the problems with the internet is lack of peer-review, or equally, peer bias. To quote Mark twain (look this up, I'm not going to):
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics! So it is with battling websites of truth. I appreciate knowing the truth (not necessarily the "facts" as known facts do not always represent the truth) before ascribing words to another. However, I think this quote-sleuthing misses the point imparted by the above quotes, regardless of the exact terms or whomever said them:
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men (And women - FB) stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. Again, the truth is that my paraphrase of Michener is still valid musing.
Where do we find such women? "Nowhere!"???? Au contraire! We do find such men and women!That was the basic point of the beginning of this thread and it really does not matter whether she was a cheerleader, a goth, a nerd, or jock, or whatever. Whether by directing direct fire over open sights or whether processing travel vouchers, she is serving, and thus she does, directly or abstractly, protect us.
I will
directly quote Eagle Squadron ace William R. Dunn:
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things;the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
William R. Dunn.
Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II. The University Press of Kentucky.
