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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... roud-5.php

Rescorla seems to be a real-life (and heroic) modern version of Flashman. I have read of Rescorla before, but had not seen that he (and a friend)modeled themselves on "Peachy and Dravot" from the Man who Would be King."

Book ordered.

Here I am recommending a story from Slate (about Danny Lewin)

http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog ... ernet.html

I reccomend Heart of a Soldier

Just thinking about how Rescorla had a "Fortunate" death. I think it is the death he would have chosen.

It is good that he did not die shitting in his bed in an Old Folks home.

Read the first chapter which opens with Hill(Rescorla's) friend serving as a mercenary officer in Katanga in 1961. CIA related. The interesting part is that the mercs there were largely ex-Wehermact who had joined the French Foreign Legion after WW2-then served in French Indochina-then served in the war in Algeria and then mercs. Many of them almost continuously at war since 1939.

A tough group of customers-that.

The line of the book has to be about Hill and Rescorla getting somewhat spiritual about meeting in past lives -ie Celts fighting Ceaser etc.

>>>“It’s called ‘déjà vu,’ ” Rescorla explained, using a term Hill had never heard. “Maybe we were Celtic warriors, fighting side by side.” “Maybe we were fighting together against the Romans !” Hill said. Rescorla’s face lit up at the prospect. And maybe, Hill thought, they were both boys who had never quite grown up. But at that moment, it seemed real. Hill felt it, the déjà vu Rescorla told him about. And he knew Rescorla did, too.

Stewart, James B. (2009-11-24). Heart of a Soldier (p. 23). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. <<<<

I love the "Never quite grown up" line.

The German Mercs were last seen robbing a bank in Elizabethtown (Congo) and heading for Uganda.

Spock wrote:The German Mercs were last seen robbing a bank in Elizabethtown (Congo) and heading for Uganda.

Was one named Roland?