... Berets grew up on family farms. Those boys will still see an investment back home. But the other half? Now they are starting to take in men who are not even citizens of the US? The Roman legions did that too, filling the ranks with men who had no allegiance to Rome, only to the army and whatever benefits it could provided them. Looking at the hometowns of the Iraq war dead, I notice that ...

... much care that the infantry grunts in Iraq will suffer the consequences of that insanity. This business has been true ever since there were armed forces---in particular professional ones. Consider the Roman legions---they backed whichever dictator gave them more benefits. -tg Are you attempting to smear all soldiers in the US armed forces or only some of them?

..., as well as duty, to maintain. But in proportion as the public freedom was lost in extent of conquest, war was gradually improved into an art, and degraded into a trade. The legions themselves, even at the time when they were recruited in the most distant provinces, were supposed to consist of Roman citizens. That distinction was generally considered either as a legal ...

..., as well as duty, to maintain. But in proportion as the public freedom was lost in extent of conquest, war was gradually improved into an art, and degraded into a trade. The legions themselves, even at the time when they were recruited in the most distant provinces, were supposed to consist of Roman citizens. That distinction was generally considered either as a legal ...

..., as well as duty, to maintain. But in proportion as the public freedom was lost in extent of conquest, war was gradually improved into an art, and degraded into a trade. The legions themselves, even at the time when they were recruited in the most distant provinces, were supposed to consist of Roman citizens. That distinction was generally considered either as a legal qualification or as ...

I was home for the weekend and picked up an old copy of Spook Legion. Written in 1935, it feels like it was written in two very different sections...not Dent's normal pattern of sending the heroes out on a trip half way through the story. Instead, the first third concentrates on them figuring out that there really is an invisibility ray, and the second two-thirds is a wide open display of ...

...è la Pavana op. 50 di Fauré, ma in realtà il pezzo cui mi riferivo non era Legione Straniera, ma Restoration (in effetti non sento il disco da secoli). Qui un assaggino. http://perso.orange.fr/garry.holding/music/mp3/faure_pavane.mp3 Infatti, Legione Straniera è di Pio / Battiato / Destrieri....quindi super originale...altro che cover eheh Sul sito di Giusto Pio ...

Massimo Manca ha scritto: mi è sfuggito il titolo e l'autore, e dunque chissà quando lo ricupererò. Trovato: è la Pavana op. 50 di Fauré, ma in realtà il pezzo cui mi riferivo non era Legione Straniera, ma Restoration (in effetti non sento il disco da secoli). Qui un assaggino. http://perso.orange.fr/garry.holding/music/mp3/faure_pavane.mp3

... of Das Boot: Max Boot Gets His 'Freedom Legion' By Weldon Berger Created Dec 26 2006 - 6...suggested modeling the new enterprise after the French Foreign Legion - he dubbed it the "Freedom Legion" - in what must surely be the only recorded instance of a neoconservative publicly ... recruiting, training, maintaining and commanding the Freedom Legion you can add that of protecting the recruiters ...

Kent State and the Legion of Doom By Aaron B. Pryor Created Nov 3 2006 - 11:18am There are incredible goings on at my alma mater. The journalism department is vacating its old quarters for a new, freshly renovated building on Front Campus. The new building is one I remember as old and crochety, with sticky walls and hissing radiators. It's apparently been made over, and so the J-School ...