HNRI

It seems to me that you let yourself be swayed a little too much by the military aspects of things.  –Karl Marx

War Stories:  veterans call them swapping lies.  Sam Watkins said, “Reader, a battlefield, after a battle, is a sad and sorrowful sight to look at.”  Later he said, “The glory of war is but the glory of battle, the shouts, and cheers, and victory.”  We forget the sorrow.  We forget the victory.  We have a mid-life crisis and try to swap lies for a life nearly over that makes no more sense than it did when we made all the promises we had every intention of keeping.  Marriage becomes a marriage with the magic of capital letters.  Elizabeth had said the Magic words and the magic spell was broken and…

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