We were also at a proper....Congressionally declared......state of war with both Germany and Japan....a rather significant detail.....not so with Iraq...Pakistan.....Afganistan........
War battered dogs are we
Fighters in every clime;
Fillers of trench and of grave,
Mockers bemocked by time,
War dogs hungry and grey,
Gnawing a naked bone,
Fighters in every clime-
Every cause but our own
-Emily Lawless"With the Wild Geese"
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