Re: Food Checkout Week

In article <0EBxj.14959$XI.10852@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Jette) wrote:

> Read the names and you'll realise that in many cases a whole generation
> of that town's menfolk were wiped out - WIPED out.   (in some cases 
> they joined up in what was known as "Pals brigades" - a group of fellow
> workers from a factory, whole villages, football(soccer) teams and
> their sup****ters). 

The British Army instituted a deliberate policy of mixing men up after 
some of the early huge losses, so that a disaster to one or two units 
could no longer have that effect. It still continues. 

-- 
John Dallman, jgd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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