Originally Posted by
Abbey
As the daughter of a WWII veteran of Monte Cassino and Anzio, I wonder if any significant number of those guys felt the sentiments on that lighter. I can’t ask him now.
So, what do you think? It was a very different time and a very different war, but some things are timeless and universal.
I cannot really comment positively or negatively on that inscription, being a non-combatant.
I have heard that line before, using a bit different verbiage -but that inscription shows the
heart of the writer: Frustrated and disappointed:
“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,
for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”.
Dad sent me that from 'Nam.
Last edited by Elessar; 09-10-2019 at 09:15 PM.
I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same of others"...John Wayne in "The Shootist"
A Deplorable!
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