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> I expanded my knowledge of the US Coast Guard, and also the Canadian armed
> forces, while touring the Great Lakes.  I have forgotten much (I need to go
> back and read my notes), but that is where I learned that our Coast Guard
> was not always restricted to domestic operations in the past.  There are a
> few memorials/historical markers dedicated to Coast Guard units lost during
> the early days of WWII on the lakes.

How did this happen? I don't recall fighting happening there? Training in 
winter conditions, maybe?

>> War just plain sucks, even when necessary (as a few were)
> Yes indeed it does.  Most serious conflict, whether it be large wars or
> small, interpersonal conflicts, plain suck.

Yet humans are addicted to them, it seems (from Facebook, at least,. & the 
early days of "Fight-O Net" *G*)

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