Castor Troy
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Joined: 30/9/2005 From: Rocky's graveside
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So I've had a couple of beers. But that doesn't stop the fact that Band Of Brothers is the greatest thing ever to be filmed and shown on my TV. I want to be a soldier. I want to be in Bastogne with a lack of winter clothing. I want to be huddled in a foxhole, with a tarpaulin over me, sitting next to Malarky who hands me a smoke while the Germans sing Silent Night from their lines. I want to go back and forth to a church that has been converted into an aid station and liaise with a rather standard looking nurse whose beauty radiates from her insides, generated by the selfless good she does minute after minute, hour after hour. I want to cook a cup of joe in a helmet before being called for a patrol into unknown territory and maybe fall into a Germans foxhole. I want to feel the pain they felt to know who I am.
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The individual human mind. In a child's ability to master the multiplication table, there is more holiness than all your shouted hosannas and holy holies. An idea is more important than a monument and the advancement of Man's knowledge more miraculous than all the sticks turned to snakes and the parting of the waters.
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