You think you're kidding.

--- Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@juno.com> wrote:

> Yeah, that's really productive.  Attacking dead
> people!  Duh.

> Turning this into a tread ON topic, how about a
> scenario in SG II where
> the troops (deployed as peacemakers) are assigned to
> protect an
> religious/ethnic graveyard 

Been there, done that.

In Kosovo, Albanians have a habit of desecrating Serb
graveyards wholesale.  Orthodox cultures have a really
big thing about the dead--unlike most other religions
Orthodoxy considers human beings to be composed of
both body and soul _both_ of which are essential parts
of human nature.  Never developed the Bogomilist
tendency to declare all physical things evil or the
body merely a shell for the soul.  Anyway, desecration
of gravesites is guaranteed to mobilize that villiage
to go burn down a mosque or house or something.  So
lots of tiny little Serb churches (frequent targets of
Albanian firebombings) with their graveyards dating
back centuries are guarded by KFOR platoons.

John

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