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November 11, 2010

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oddjob

Thank you for this post,

all of it.................

kathy a.

yes.

Sir Charles

Agreed.

oddjob

Johnny I hardly knew ya

Decades ago, in my twenties, I sang another arrangement of a very similar (or same) song.

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" obviously has deeper roots than the Confederacy.

litbrit

Thank you, MB. For this, for what you did for the country, and for your friendship.

XXX
D.

oddjob

To be a warrior is to be willing, and often, to sacrifice all, including life. A warrior who is true to the calling does not demand anything.

MHB, if I understand correctly the White Mountain Apache are most correctly described as a (universally) warrior society. Do the White Mountain Apaches make any allowances for people (of their tribe) who are not born to be warriors, but rather are born for other societal purposes?

minstrel hussain boy

of course we do. we must. one of the reasons i think we don't care about silly things like sexual preferences is that we have never been all that many. each life is precious among those few.

hunters, who carry more social status than warriors generally do not waste their time on things like war.

you have to remember though, that even when there isn't a war, things like raiding, horse thieving, or just going into someone else's land to fuck with them happened all the time.

war, a fight for our survival as a nation and people was rare, and a very critical step. consensus had to be reached before going to war, and the council of grandmothers always held the last word. no matter what our reputation was as warriors, we couldn't go to war unless our grammies said it was alright. (of course, we had some born again hard ass grammies).

in war though, when the stakes are critical, there are no non-combatant apaches.

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