Quote Originally Posted by Toolmaker51 View Post
Most of us will agree, a good portion of the POSITIVE aspects of society very well can be attributed to women.
Men probably claim the SIGNIFICANT percentage, but a large amount of those haven't advanced society, or turned out productive.
Too True. I made my living for most of the first half of my adult life preparing for war, or participating in war. In a couple of months, I'll have been retired from the US military for as long as I was on active duty. And in all that time, we've still been preparing for, or actively participating in war. I went to war on my 7th wedding anniversary in August, 1990, trying to prevent war from coming to our shores. We failed. If you've seen the video or photos of what CNN called "The Highway of Death" from Kuwait back to Iraq, I helped make that happen. We did manage to keep the Iraqis from invading Saudi Arabia, and to drive them back out of Kuwait, but we did not manage to prevent further problems in that region. Of course, no one else has, either. There is a reason the Middle East is called the Crossroads of War. People have been fighting there since war was waged with bronze weapons, at least.

I heard this song several years before I enlisted, but it means more to me now than it did then:


Bill