RussellMc wrote: > This is based on a private email I sent to a few friends. > > Occasionally you hear of people who achieved and experienced lives so far > outside the norm as to be staggering. Here's one such. > > Copied to the list because I know that at least a few will enjoy just > reading through the Wikipedia page and that a few will be enough inspire= d > by a life of such madness, bravery, madness, adventure, madness, range of > activities and involvements, and madness, to want to read more about him. > > He was a soldier and probably by most definitions "a warmonger",but this= =20 > is > not about war per se - although war and fighting and conflict utterly > defined him. I wouldn't say that the world would be a better place if mor= e > people were more like him - but our world needs a few people like this - > plus a lot more who are very very very different - or else. > > An utterly stunning life. An interesting read for sure. Although I will not agree that we need a few= =20 people like the man who "enjoys war". Vitaliy=20 --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .