On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:52:28 -0500, Sean O'Hara <seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful Jette declared:
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>> I was a little horrified when in California (San Francisco) to find
>> department stores holding "Armistice Day" sales,
>
>No you didn't.
Only because no one here calls it Armistice Day any more, it would
have been a Veterans' Day sale.
BTW I can understand why most of the European countries (that includes
the Central Powers, BTW), and Britain in particular might still have
it as a day of morning 89 years later considering their and our
relative losses.
--
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America,
and to the republic which it established, one nation, from many peoples,
promising liberty and justice for all.
Feel free to use the above variant pledge in your own postings.
Tim Merrigan
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