09-22-2007, 07:28 AM
Quote:That is a threat of "court-martial" and execution if I have ever seen one...
I'm not so sure of that interpretation, Mika !
Isn't it more of an exhortation.....better to die for ones country facing her foes, evil: .........at least that's how I've always understood it. :wink:
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff