On 16/11/2010 11:27, 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 =
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.

Certainly enjoyed reading the Wiki page, thanks - might chase down the=20
autobiography...
Difficult to say much regarding any ethical/moral issues, world needing=20
more/less like him etc, without reading more about him, though I get the=20
feeling it probably wouldn't hurt for (modern) Britain to have a couple=20
of his kind around... :-)

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