That's funny - the post had your return address in the header. Somebody trying to make you look bad? Superfluous, if so. Marc Jim Choate wrote:
Psst...I didn't write it.
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:
Jim Choate wrote:
Nations with imperial aspirations, invariably, throughout History change their conscript based army in favor of an army of paid soldiers. Today euphimisticaly called 'profesional' soldiers, but know also as mercenaries and soldiers of fortune in the not-so-distant past. (Note: Ligustically a "soldier" is 'someone-who-is-SOLD' anyway).
Psst - your ignorance is showing! The French term "soldier" refers to a
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