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br> -- Peter Skurkiss br> Stow, Ohio /p>

Our ancestors were tougher because they had to be. They used it or they lost it. They also lived much shorter and brutal lives. For those and other reasons, they were determined to make easier the lives of their offspring. How could they have known the consequences?

Our descendants certainly will look upon us as uncouth louts continually at each other's throats. (I feel tougher already.)

p>As a perceptive writer once observed, "Civilizations ascend to greatness in hobnailed boots and descend to oblivion in silk slippers." br> -- David Govett br> Davis, California /p>

Terribly ironic, David Weigel's piece on the increasing sissi-fication of American youth. Weigel himself pushes this agenda over at Reason.com. He's a Ron Paul non-interventionist, who hates War, even if it is to fight against Al Qaeda Terrorists in Iraq.

p>No doubt, he's a non-Veteran who never served a day of his life in the Military. But if you read Reason regularly you'll see his condescension of those of us who have served. Ideals like duty and honor and loving one's country are not in the Lexicon of the far left on foreign policy

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