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doc03

(39,089 posts) Mon Mar 2, 2026, 05:39 PM Mar 2

Hanging from a Cross of Iron/Eisenhower

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Hanging from a Cross of Iron/Eisenhower (Original Post) doc03 Mar 2 OP

No one understands the cost of war better BarbD Mar 2 #1

I don't remember ever hearing his Cross of doc03 Mar 2 #2

Thank you. And thanks to this wise general and commander in chief who understood war's cost to humanity. ancianita Mar 3 #3

BarbD

(1,444 posts)

1. No one understands the cost of war better

Reply to doc03 (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2026, 06:50 PM

Mar 2

than a veteran -- especially a General who bore the thankless responsibility of having to calculate casualties. Eisenhower is also often quoted for his comment about "Beware the Military Industrial Complex."

doc03

(39,089 posts)

2. I don't remember ever hearing his Cross of

Reply to BarbD (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 2, 2026, 06:55 PM

Mar 2

Iron speech before. Thom Harmann played
it this afternoon. Imagine what all that money in his wars could have done so far.

ancianita

(43,308 posts)

3. Thank you. And thanks to this wise general and commander in chief who understood war's cost to humanity.

Reply to doc03 (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 08:16 PM

Mar 3

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