View single post by JoanieReb
 Posted: Fri Jun 22nd, 2007 03:49 am
PM Quote Reply Full Topic
JoanieReb
Member
 

Joined: Wed Jan 24th, 2007
Location:  
Posts: 620
Status: 
Offline
Mana: 
 Steven Cone wrote:

"I have always wondered what gave them  the strength to go on.was it love of  country  or life;  Did they have a death wish ? Did they think they  had something to prove by being a amputee? "

I wonder, too.  But, I don't think the "death wish" was a big part of it.  These men were surely "a different breed" than most of us know now.  They awe me.