World wars... wow. I've been reading up on WWI and WWII before teaching about Louisiana's involvement in WWII next week. The Higgins' boat is LA's main claim to the war effort, as well as the Louisiana Maneuvers held in LA before we entered the war. The Higgins boat is named after the guy who designed them. He was an expert at making boats, and tried selling his model to the Navy for years. Marines asked him to put a drop-down ramp on the front like the design of a Japanese landing craft and it was a success. You can see example of it in action, most notably in Saving Private Ryan.
As I was reading, I thought of a how crazy it must be, war. That reminded me of a definition of hell. "Hell is the impossibility of reason." the phrase was in the movie Platoon (click on the link to see the movie clip) And that made me think further of the war mentality, what it must take to defeat your enemy. And that led me to this:
In wartime you must hate your enemy, for he surely must hate you
No two ways about it.
Picture for today: tracer mortar paths during trench warfare in WWI.
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