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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
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Charlie Gibbs wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On 2024-11-03, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 02/11/2024 21:07, D wrote:
>>
>>> In terms of crime of ex-military, another factor could be what they did 
>>> and experienced while in the military, and how well prepare they were to 
>>> enter society again after the military.
>>
>> A lot of organised crime post WWII was ex military, they basically 
>> having been taught to do it.
>>
>> Also we had many many tramps (hobos) - ex servicemen suffering from what 
>> we would now call PTSD, that simply couldn't deal with peace time.
>>
>> Not many came back from war undamaged in some way. If they came back at 
>> all..
>
> Some became mercenaries because they just couldn't adapt to peacetime.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRWCK9zGynA

    Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thomson Gunner

-- 
As I was going up Punch Card Hill,
	Feeling worse and worser,
There I met a C.R.T.
	And it drop't me a cursor.

C.R.T., C.R.T.,
	Phosphors light on you!
If I had fifty hours a day
	I'd spend them all at you.
		-- Uncle Colonel's Cursory Rhymes