Joe:
Just going through this entire post today and I saw your quote above, and just had to add something.
Was talking to one of our store customers the other day, and asked them how they liked the rental, Flags of our Fathers,(we rent movies at our store). His comment? "It was okay. It was a bit slow." Oh good grief. Enough said. As we stated, unless it's bang, bang, bang, all the time, THOSE people find it boring. Well dang it, a lot of it was. Intense boredom quickly followed by intense fighting...
I was watching the History Channel's Color of War recently and one thing I remembered was that the average Combat Soldier in WWII fired his weapon approximately once every six or seven days: " Long periods of boredom and fatigue punctuated by moments of intense fear."
D.Daddy 