Who Would It Be

[soup]

If you had the choice way back BC (before conception) who would be the one person you would have liked to become?Past present or for our friends with psychic powers future.

[LT. Columbo]

interesting O.T. thread, but good!

detective Aberline so i could investigate the ripper murders in whitechapel district of london, 1888.

[soup]

Don't let my location now fool you but it would be William Wallace (Braveheart).Oh and by the way LT good choice.

[DiscoInferno]

I'd like to be my grandad 1942-45. He was in North Africa driving trucks and raiding German camps. The way he described it sounded a lot of fun.

[Chewy]

lt. wants to reflect on solving a homicide while smoking opium?

I am already who I want to be from the future.

[UncasMS]

detective Aberline so i could investigate the ripper murders in whitechapel district of london, 1888

patricia cornwell wrote an interesting book on this case:
portray of a killer - jack the ripper case closed


@ discoinferno
i'm sorry to say this but you should have thought before you spoke

war is NO fun - no matter which side you're on, no matter when or where it took place, no matter who started it for what insane reason

i hope there is plenty of time ahead of you until you will be old enough to join the army and i can only hope you dont make hasty judgements when time has come

there have been other granddads at coventry or dresden and i'm sure they wouldnt want anybody to be in their shoes

[LT. Columbo]

UncasMS

patricia cornwell wrote an interesting book on this case:
portray of a killer - jack the ripper case closed

i'll spend some time on google...truly a topic that intrests me. one of the reasons i like "from hell" so much. thanx

[UncasMS]

i enjoyed the book very much

and sorry for the spelling mistake: portait not portray (stupid german that i am)

[LT. Columbo]

is that 2 now? "portrait" i'll assume. i may add this to my "wish list" this year.

[UncasMS]

hehehe, of course this was #2 but pure omission isnt as bad as my mistake #1

[bill7621]

@ discoinferno
i'm sorry to say this but you should have thought before you spoke

war is NO fun - no matter which side you're on, no matter when or where it took place, no matter who started it for what insane reason

i hope there is plenty of time ahead of you until you will be old enough to join the army and i can only hope you dont make hasty judgements when time has come

there have been other granddads at coventry or dresden and i'm sure they wouldnt want anybody to be in their shoes

Well said. There was a saying back around the time of "Hell no, we won't go"
It was "Make war no more". Too bad we didn't listen.

@Discoinferno, be careful what you wish for. Sometimes they come true.

[DiscoInferno]

Im standing by by what i say. I didnt say "hell yeh" killings fun!! The comradeship my grandad made with friends during the war, the proud feeling of knowing you are doing the right thing and keeping evil at bay. Thats why i would like to be him then. I would never join an army now, unless Ireland was under direct threat from invasion. Being a soldier nowadays means being a pawn for oil companies. Back then you were doing the world a good turn.
My grandads family escaped belgium because they were Jews and would have been killed. Soon as they got to England, they joined up. Im damn proud of that. If that offends you, tough.

[Chewy]

I once ran into a man from the air corps(us), it was right after the movie
Memphis Bell came out, we met several times on a job, after a while we started talking about WWII, I talked about my Dad in the South Pacific,
and the movie I had just seen and how many pilots and crew we lost over Europe, he got a real serious somber expression and started his tale.
He had been with a dive bomber outfit in the pacific, 20 guys trained
and served together, became like family, he told me he hadn't talked
about it to anyone, even his wife, for 40 years. They were after the Japanese merchant fleet, dive bombing didn't work on small ships,
so they developed a new technique, attack like torpedo bombers, and plant the bombs at the very last minute, he and one other guy who was crippled
survived. I was honored to hear his tale, he must have been 70 at the time.
He needed to finally talk about it.

[bill7621]

My grandads family escaped belgium because they were Jews and would have been killed. Soon as they got to England, they joined up. Im damn proud of that. If that offends you, tough.

There is nothing you could do or say that would offend me. And you have every right to be proud of what your family did in fighting what I also feel was a war between good and evil. But I'm sure you weren't told all the stories, just as I will never tell my son all the stories of the things I did. He'll only hear the "good stories". The ones that sound like "a lot of fun". I've spent almost 35 years of my life trying to forget the "fun times". Am I proud of what I did? No, nor am I ashamed. I did what I felt I had to so that possibly my son and people like you wouldn't have to. If you think war is "fun", then I feel sorry for you. And if that offends you, then as you said, tough!

[DiscoInferno]

Youre a brave man, laying your life on the line for your country. Never once did i say war is fun, that was Uncas.I said what my grandad got upto then sounded fun.Thats a big difference. And the "offend you tough" wasnt directed at you, i just posted that after your post. It was a sweeping "tough" at all the bleeding hearts
EDIT Uncas said war is NO fun, assuming i meant war is fun. I said what my grandad did and felt there sounded fun. He said he never felt so alive. It wasnt like he was blowing planes out the sky, he drove a truck!