[Ads-l] soldier

[Jonathan Lighter]

It's been a long, long time since "most" members of the military fired at
the enemy in wartime.

Maybe what we need is a handy hypernym for "fight," "support combat
operations," and "defend proactively."

But maybe we've done OK without one.

JL



On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 6:53 AM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for your service, AF.
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