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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2009, 05:41:19 PM »
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Don't hope too much. We usually get over 80 at least in our family.  8)

Which is why your theory sucks. QED.

I have pirates in my family. And soldiers too.  8)

So your related to those Somalis that took over that tanker :P 

The ones that drowned, most likely.
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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2009, 05:41:36 PM »
But they were brave when they lived.  8)
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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2009, 05:42:13 PM »
There goes your theory, then.
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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2009, 05:43:32 PM »
Quote from: TheoK on January 16, 2009, 05:35:18 PM
Quote from: odeon on January 16, 2009, 05:31:52 PM
Quote from: TheoK on January 16, 2009, 05:30:15 PM
Don't hope too much. We usually get over 80 at least in our family.  8)

Which is why your theory sucks. QED.

I have pirates in my family. And soldiers too.  8)

I have honest lawmen, Texas Rangers and AMERICAN (note the use of capital letters for emphasis) soldiers in mine. I am like them, in many ways, so you and I might have a scuffle or two.















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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2009, 05:43:55 PM »
Brave I think not how hard can it be to take a tanker that has maybe 20 unarmed men on it when you have grenades and AK-47's
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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2009, 05:45:12 PM »
Somali "pirates"=a joke.
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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2009, 05:45:17 PM »
Quote from: parts on January 16, 2009, 05:43:55 PM
Brave I think not how hard can it be to take a tanker that has maybe 20 unarmed men on it when you have grenades and AK-47's

Maybe they couldn't swim? :P
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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2009, 05:45:59 PM »
Quote from: TheoK on January 16, 2009, 05:45:12 PM
Somali "pirates"=a joke.

Pirates=another joke
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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2009, 05:47:19 PM »
Quote from: TheoK on January 16, 2009, 05:45:12 PM
Somali "pirates"=a joke.

Yeah, considering it from a business standpoint ...

They stole one hundred million dollars worth of product and asked only for five million in ransom.

That's not good business!

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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #24 on: January 16, 2009, 05:48:25 PM »
Swedish pirates 300 years ago, like Lars Gatenhielm, were not a joke.  8)
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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #25 on: January 16, 2009, 05:52:53 PM »
Quote from: TheoK on January 16, 2009, 05:48:25 PM
Swedish pirates 300 years ago, like Lars Gatenhielm, were not a joke.  8)

No, not to the poor people whose shores that they ravaged, but what did the captains of British and Spanish cannonboats think of them?

I mean those ones whose journal writings have remained a major part of history.
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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #26 on: January 16, 2009, 05:55:34 PM »
The Swedes usually attacked Danish and Russian ships, not poor defenseless people.  8)

Lars Gatenhielm
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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #27 on: January 16, 2009, 06:04:15 PM »
Yay! Sink the Russkies to the bottom of the Baltic Sea! :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:



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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #28 on: January 16, 2009, 06:45:46 PM »
They had the ultimate in terrifying experiences when they were teens, so maybe they figure the longer they live the more they''ll forget and the more time they'll have to truly enjoy life.
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Re: Why do surviving soldiers often get very old?
« Reply #29 on: January 17, 2009, 11:54:20 AM »
This is funny (and proves that I'm right); the allies of Sweden in the Great Northern War:

Poland–Lithuania

Ottoman Empire

Zaporozhian Cossacks

Madagascar pirates

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