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Caricature of fox holes from the History of Fox Company 398th Infantry 100th Division #wwii #infantry #foxholes #europeantheatre #eto #1944 #1945 https://www.instagram.com/p/CgPW65MACcP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Was able to visit the @infantrymuseum yesterday for the second time and honestly forgotten how good it was The opening recreation of the battle of the Ia Drang Valley gave me goose bumps My favorite artifacts included a wall of Stoner machine guns, General Patton’s sweatshirt, a Chinese flag from the Boxer Rebellion, Vinegar Joe’s Map Case, and Herman Goring’s baton. (at National Infantry Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf99IonOHEk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen Owen perished on the western front a week before the end of the war. The majority of his poems, including this one, were published posthumously. #wilfredowen #wilfredowenpoetry #wwi https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ_1wXlhD37/?utm_medium=tumblr

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This makes the list of my top ten favorite books as it cuts to the core of what war is and the struggles and tribulations warriors face. Chris Hedges, a veteran war correspondent, writes a tale of what he has seen, how it has changed him, and how war can be the ultimate drug that destroys our most basic civilized instincts. Here are some of my favorite quotes: “Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living. Only when we are in the midst of conflict does the shallowness and vapidness of much of our lives becomes apparent.” “When we are asked to choose between truth and contentment, must of us pick contentment.” “War forms it own culture. The rush of battle is potent and often lethal addiction.” “War exposes the capacity for evil that lurks not far below the surface within all of us.” “I would rather die like this than go back to the routine of life.” “The lie in war is almost always the lie of omission.” “Each generation is raised to exact revenge for the injustices visited on the last, real, or imagined.” “War usually starts with collective euphoria.” “Drugs took the place of battle. Suicide took the place of heroic death.” #war #philosophy #warisaforcethatgivesusmeaning #chrishedges https://www.instagram.com/p/CPtUN5yhs6X/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Aaron Stern, a brick layer imprisoned at Auschwitz, in Palestine fighting for the Haganah in 1948 #haganah #Arab-Israeli War #auschwitz https://www.instagram.com/p/CPf-Ecqh8wV/?utm_medium=tumblr

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French paratroopers (6ème BPC) in Laos, 1953.

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The soldiers who participated in Dien Bien Phu Campaign of the First Indochina War, laugh with General Võ Nguyên Giáp on May 13, 1954.

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“Move to the South to avoid communism” South Vietnamese Poster 1954

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In 1951 a young congressman named John F. Kennedy visits Saigon at a time when France was engaged in a losing cause during the First Indochina War.

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Graffiti in French advising: “To Leave Is to Choose Freedom.” Hanoi, 1954

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Young guerrillas wear grenades at their belts, preparing to fight the encroaching Viet Minh forces in the Red River Delta, northern Vietnam, 1954.

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South African Recce operators, from left to right, Koos Stadler, André Diedericks, a UNITA member known as Captain Mickey, and Neve Matias, another recce.

Stadler and DIedericks were on two-men missions to infiltrate Angola and destroy the FAPLA’s MIG-21 and MIG-23 on the runways.