The Tea Tephi Mystery White Pages News White Pages Site Map Take the Rocketour Flight Status Report Up Go to Sec. The American Fighting Spirit Something was happening, too, to the minds of American soldiers. They could fight for girl friends, and Mom and Dad.
Legionnaires are professional soldiers who fight because they are told to.
They were the Romans, who fought to keep a vast empire together, and their mercenaries, who fought for the love of fighting. The famous French Foreign Legion was always known to be a sanctuary for criminals, sadists and men whose only satisfaction in life came from fighting. They were paid to fight - so they fought. But American young men are not of the stuff of legions. They proved, in World War II, again in Korea, and in Vietnam, that they are superb warriors.