re: Former UGA great and WWII veteran, Cliff Kimsey, dies at the age of 94

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Hard to imagine nowadays a world in which your favorite college football players can reach the highest of heights on the gridiron and, upon receiving their degree, are immediately enlisted into the armed services to fight in the world's greatest and bloodiest war with the great potential of never being seen alive again.

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I thank God we haven't been faced with this sort of conflict. Not because I don't think our kids cannot deal with it, they can. But because the sheer waste of life is appalling.

France still, to this day, has not recovered from the losses of WWI, much less WWII. It might be centuries and a dramatic change in the world before they do. They probably won't though.

It is terrible to think of all the great young men and women that fought and died in the Second World War and what they could have accomplished had they lived.

Some wars have to be fought. Kimsey fought that war and helped to save the world. He is a credit to America and Georgia.