Re: Food Checkout Week

Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Yes, you're probably right.  It was just such a disconnect - a bit
> like (though I'm sure there is no such thing) a Hallmark "Happy
> Holocaust Day" card.

Since WWI was such a terrible thing, it makes sense to celebrate its
ending.  It might make sense to celebrate the Holocaust's ending, too.

However, most Americans probably don't link the November 11th holiday
to WWI.  It's been called "Veterans Day" for the past 54 years.

> Should you visit any small town or village in Scotland or England
> you'll find - quite prominent - a memorial to "the Glorious Dead"
> of the 1914-18 war.  Read the names and you'll realise that in many
> cases a whole generation of that town's menfolk were wiped out -
> WIPED out.

It was monstrous and insane.  I don't understand why people drafted
to fight in such a war didn't turn on the people who drafted them and
kill them instead -- on both sides.
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