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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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