Ha! Brilliant. I do enjoy that one. Though my personal favorite of favorites is "Tommy."

So cool!

Great job - I love it!

Hey, pretty much. Some things don't change... or change very slowly.

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, of course.

I Seconds that emotion!!

Those that ignore history in order to rewrite it are also doomed to repeat it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to have George Santayana quoted to them.

Classic song and an interesting reference to the old days

And the British Army use the Lee Enfield SA80A2 these days :P

Human nature doesn't change, because we are all animals. And animals don't change much in the course of a million years... or two, or three...

We live under the illusion that great changes have occurred in the course of the last decades, just because now we use computers instead of the abacus. But those details are insignificant. Despite the self-domestication of our so-called civilization, our brain is no different from the one of the paleolithic barbarian.

Nice lil history project

When the electorate understands "The Gods Of The Copybook Headings" perhaps we will see a real change instead of BS as usual...
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_copybook.htm

I'm not holding my breath...

...yikes...

No proposition Euclid wrote,
No formulae the text-books know,
Will turn the bullet from your coat,
Or ward the tulwar's downward blow
Strike hard who cares--shoot straight who can--
The odds are on the cheaper man.

Kipling, Arithmetic on the Frontier

"... and the epitaph drear
A fool lies here
Who tried to hustle the East."

Ahhh, I do love Kipling. But the Enfield is still a treasured rifle there, and you can still find someone to help you take a dirt nap if you like, but Taliban aside, The Afghannis' still have a deep and amazingly respectful code of conduct.

I know how you feel. My arts is really coming into it's own but I seldom draw for myself. Such a whore I am.

ah yes her majesties army, I went there, but I was deemed medically unfit ah well