The Quotable Stan Lee
I heard about this story a week or so ago. (If you're prompted to put in a username and password, use "laexaminer@laexaminer.com" as the name and "laexaminer" as the password. Btw, this works at a TON of news sites requiring registration, if you don't want to be bothered).
But is seems Stan Lee get's around even further. This, from an email home, from a soldier only about 3 weeks in Iraq (bold empahsis added):
Well, I am no longer in Camp Arifjan, Camp Virginia, or even Kuwait. I am right now, smack dab in the middle of Iraq in the Sunni Triangle. We convoyed up here (about 30 of us) to set up our company area for when the rest of the unit arrives. . . .I had a civilian contractor in Camp Arifjan at the motor pool tell me after a long conversation, that there is nothing in the world worth dying for.
He tried to convince me that nothing is worth your own life. I looked at him and all I could say was "Then what do you live for?"
I look at these people and as much as I hate to think of it, I realized that these marines, soldiers, sailors, and airmen who have died during this war and the aftermath have not died and should never be considered as dying for nothing. What we are fighting for are the lives of thousands and thousands of men, women, and children. No they are not Americans but they are human beings. America is a very powerful country and I was once told that with power comes responsibility.
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