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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

This was the first time i had been in contact and killed anyone. I felt good, I felt hard. But the euphoria was nothing to do with ending another person's life. I felt good because i had not panicked, I had not let down my friends, I had reacted as a professional soldier trained by professional soldiers, and the excitement of the firefight was nothing short of fantastic. I've never taken drugs but I can't believe there is anything which can equal the thrill of battle. I loved it.

- Peter McAleese

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Canadian Ranger

Unit in the army serving in the north or in rural coastal communities in Canada.

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Today in Military History

August 20

1914:

World War I: German forces occupy Brussels

1940:

Chuchill's speech "Never in the field of human conflict..."

1944:

Allies close Falaise Gap

1968:

The "Prague Spring" abruptly ended when 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia

1998:

U.S. Embassy Bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.

636:

Arab forces led by Khalid bin Walid took contol of Syria and Palestine in the Battle of Yarmuk

917:

Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invaded Thrace and drove the Byzantines out.

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