65 years ago...

And most were no older than our Bar Boys....


[youtube:2vcgpvfc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpDCrMVtVI0[/youtube:2vcgpvfc]

And most were no older than our Bar Boys....


Our bar boys? Why don't you try speaking for yourself?

[Art]

http://home.mindspring.com/~railroadimages/images/kidupper/kidupper.jpg

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THE KID IN UPPER 4

It is 3:42 a.m. on a troop train.
Men wrapped in blankets are breathing heavily.
Two in every lower berth. One in every upper.
This is no ordinary trip. It may be their last in the U.S.A. till the end of the war. Tomorrow they will be on the high seas.
One is wide awake ... listening ... staring into the blackness.
It is the kid in Upper 4.

Tonight, he knows, he is leaving behind a lot of little things - and big ones.
The taste of hamburgers and pop ... the feel of driving a roadster over a six-lane highway ... a dog named Shucks, or Spot, or Barnacle Bill.
The pretty girl who writes so often ... that gray-haired man, so proud and awkward at the station ... the mother who knit the socks he'll wear soon.
Tonight he's thinking them over.
There's a lump in his throat. And maybe - a tear fills his eye. It doesn't matter, Kid. Nobody will see ... it's too dark.

A couple of thousand miles away, where he's going, they don't know him very well.
But people all over the world are waiting, praying for him to come.
And he will come, this kid in Upper 4.
With new hope, peace and freedom for a tired, bleeding world.

Next time you are on the train, remember the kid in Upper 4.
If you have to stand enroute - it is so he may have a seat.
If there is no berth for you - it is so that he may sleep.
If you have to wait for a seat in the diner - it is so he ... and thousands like him ... may have a meal they won't forget in the days to come.
For to treat him as our most honored guest is the least we can do to pay a mighty debt of gratitude.

The New Haven Railroad ================================================== ===================
Three boys, still in one piece. Forced labourers on the way to the unnecessary war. Twinkocide as usual.


World War I: In the United States, a total of 2,810,296 men were drafted between September 1917 and November 1918, drawing from the pool of men born on or before 1900.
World War II: A total of 10,110,104 men were drafted between November 1940 and October 1946, drawing from the pool of men born on or before 1927.
Korea: A total of 1,529,539 men were drafted between June 1950 and June 1953, drawing from the pool of men born on or before 1935.
Vietnam: A total of 1,857,304 men were drafted between August 1964 and February 1973, drawing from the pool of men born on or before 1955.

http://www.answers.com/topic/conscientious-objection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscripti ... rld_War_II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States#World_War_II)
http://books.google.de/books?id=U0xblxV ... t&resnum=9 (http://books.google.de/books?id=U0xblxV_pLgC&pg=PA375&lpg=PA375&dq=conscription+quakers+world+war+ii&source=bl&ots=iiYXEZIRRK&sig=YEBnrK3f174_8vzGrbUhue4RitI&hl=en&ei=l8gqSvOcF5KysAaOv83mCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9)


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http://www.kingsleymfg.com/KMFGStore/
http://www.darpa.mil/dso/solicitations/sn07-43.htm
http://beta.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/22730/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/images/070719-bionic-hand_big.jpg

And most were no older than our Bar Boys....


Our bar boys? Why don't you try speaking for yourself?

Ok, OK! Sorry Bunny.

YOUR bar boys....

Howzzat? :thumbleft:

[francois]

Kenc, very superbe tribute to those who gave their lives for their countries. For a moment I forgot D-Day.
The article, posted by Art, by the New Haven Railroad was very touching.

[Khor tose]

Kenc, very superbe tribute to those who gave their lives for their countries. For a moment I forgot D-Day.
The article, posted by Art, by the New Haven Railroad was very touching.

You guys all better be carefull, as you sound like you really care about people, and you know how that pisses the bunny off.
Thank you Art, you brought back an old but pleasent memory.

...You guys better all be carefull, as you sound like you really care about people, and you know how that pisses the bunny off....

Well, it might warm the cockles of Bunny's heart to know I don't have warm feelings for all people.
But I do stand up and salute these young guys (now Old Coots) for what they sacrificed for.

And, being that sort of shmuck, I also applaud loudly at the Vetrans Day march and the contingents of the "Alexander Hamilton Post 448" in the Gay Pride Parade. http://www.post448.org