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   The gas station at Sawtelle and National in Los Angeles has long exhibited interesting trucks and sometimes tanks. For instance there was a very modern European Mercedes semi-tractor, and an old fire engine with a little thermometer built into the radiator cap. I heard the owner is a collector.  In the last 6 months he has been building up military equipment (inspired by Ukraine war?) and now has 3 different tanks (and not all Shermans) , a half-track, and more.  Look for captions at the bottom of the pictures.  Pictures: click link:  Tanks at gas station   

 The gas station at Sawtelle and National in Los Angeles has long exhibited interesting trucks and sometimes tanks. For instance there was a very modern European Mercedes semi-tractor, and an old fire engine with a little thermometer built into the radiator cap. I heard the owner is a collector.  In the last 6 months he has been building up military equipment (inspired by Ukraine war?) and now has 3 different tanks (and not all Shermans) , a half-track, and more.  Look for captions at the bottom of the pictures.  (CLICK "READ MORE" AND CLICK LINK TO SEE PHOTOS) Pictures: click link:  Tanks at gas station   

Ex 23.4   “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, you shall bring it back to him.  5  If you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it, you shall help him to lift it up. [ a ] 1 Sam 24.16 And Saul lifted up his voice and wept. 17 He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil. 18 And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the Lord put me into your hands. 19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? So may the Lord reward you with good for what you have done to me this day. Prov 20 22  Do not say, “I will repay evil”;  wait for the Lord, and he will help you. Psalm 37  Fret not yourself because of the wicked,     be not envious of wrongdoers! 2  For they will soon fade like the grass,     and wither ...

ANE TODAY - 201409 - Horrors of War in the Ancient Near East - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) By Jordi Vidal . . . . This archive described in detail the devastating effects on the city’s inhabitants of the siege led by Nabopolassar of Babylonia: the price of cereals rose, the lower classes were drastically impoverished, and traders appeared, offering to buy the children of ruined families. ...  Following in the footsteps of Van de Mieroop, Nadali and I have edited a volume devoted to violence against noncombatants from the end of the third millennium BC (the Third Dynasty of Ur) to the middle of the first millennium BC (the Achaemenid period). The end result was  The other face of the battle. The impact of war on civilians in the Ancient Near East , a set of seven contributions from Agnès Garcia, Jürgen Lorenz, John MacGinnis, Leticia Rovira, Ingo Schrakamp, and Jeffrey Zorn. Brass band from the Balawat gate of Shalmaneser III showing prisoners being tortured an...

... the study of war has been neglected, no more so than in the ancient Near East, and especially its impact on noncombatant populations. After the Second World War, military history became a marginal discipline within academia. From 1960 to 1990, devoting oneself to the study of war meant the risk of being described as right-wing, a war-gamer or, in the best cases, second-rate. Some military history specialists explained this marginalisation as the direct result of the trauma caused by the twentieth century, the nuclear threat, the prospect of nonconventional wars, peace movements, or just greater interest in socio-economic rather than political history. “Standard of Ur,” ‘War’ panel, from the Royal Cemetery, ca. 2600 BC. Since the 1990s military history has resurged and there are an increasing number of books, journals, articles, conferences, and scientific meetings on the subject. I believe that the main reason is very simple: the military history being written now is better than wh...