21-04-2009, 09:23 PM
Thanks Tosh. I once knew a guy who used to "play" with a 20mm in Afghanistan. Used to be connected to the so called "Buffalo guns" situation up there contracted by the French on behalf of you know who to teach the tribesmen to "reach out and touch" people and things.
They used to be Jeep mounted and were obtained from the black market I was told -- the old Hispano type that was the star of the RAF's WWII Spitfire fighter. I have also seen a picture of one stripped down and used as a shoulder weapon (honest to God!). I wouldn't like to be sitting behind that baby when you depressed the trigger.
Sure, lots of people read what you write, it's just that most don't have anything they can usefully add. Which is entirely understandable when you consider the subject matter, I think you'd agree.
But I really do appreciate it can feel lonely sometimes.
Been there. Done that. Journalistically speaking obviously. It's not always a bag of fun. Buy hey, if anyone said it was going to be easy we wouldn't have wanted to do it, right...
They used to be Jeep mounted and were obtained from the black market I was told -- the old Hispano type that was the star of the RAF's WWII Spitfire fighter. I have also seen a picture of one stripped down and used as a shoulder weapon (honest to God!). I wouldn't like to be sitting behind that baby when you depressed the trigger.
Sure, lots of people read what you write, it's just that most don't have anything they can usefully add. Which is entirely understandable when you consider the subject matter, I think you'd agree.
But I really do appreciate it can feel lonely sometimes.
Been there. Done that. Journalistically speaking obviously. It's not always a bag of fun. Buy hey, if anyone said it was going to be easy we wouldn't have wanted to do it, right...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14