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Target Practice and Toilet Paper

War is Hell. Not the flaming, burning, lava-pit Hell with devils and demons cackling maniacally while poking you in the tuckus with their ...
By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorDecember 6, 2005
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War Stories

When I was a child, I’d sit in my Granddad’s kitchen listening to him reminisce about his days in the army. He was ...
By Hitchhiker Legacy AuthorDecember 6, 2005
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The Contrarian: Why We Fight

Starting with the original Castle Wolfenstein game on the Apple II, I have personally shot, stabbed, driven over, detonated or otherwise killed thousands ...
By John Scott Tynes Legacy AuthorDecember 6, 2005
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Kuma\War: Frontlines of a New Medium

In July 2003, television screens around the world were filled with images of the dead bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of ...
By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorDecember 6, 2005
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Apocalypse Not

December 20th, 1989 – Fort Clayton, Panama – 01:30 hoursThe balloon has gone up – quite noisily. For the past half hour, we’ve ...
By Shawn Williams Legacy AuthorDecember 6, 2005
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Les Grognards

By cruel fate you are the only board wargamer in Kankakee, Illinois. No, make that bored wargamer. You’ve set up all three poster-sized ...
By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorDecember 6, 2005
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