HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 11/11/2003
10:14:18 AM:

> Lou asks:
>
> > Why did you post this?
>
> Did you not want to be reminded what war is about on Veterans' Day?
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
<sarcasm on>
Come on Wirt!! Are you trying to spoil it for us?  We have this image of
the camera panning across rows and rows of neatly spaced white head stones,
each adorned with a small flag waving in a slight breeze against a well
manicured lush green lawn. And now you come along with this posting and we
have to associate a person with each head stone?
</sarcasm off>

The camera panning across the rows of head stones shielded us, kept a
certain distance, kept our feeling in check for, in a way, ALL those were
'nameless' head stones. For EACH death we have to associate a family, a
parent, a spouse, a child, the pain of their individual loss, the pain of
our collective loss, the wonderment if all this could have been avoided.
Perhaps even ask:  Did I do anything to help avoid that family's sacrifice,
is there something I can do to prevent another family's sacrifice?

Thanks for the posting!!!!

Regards
Paul Christidis

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