Posted on 07/19/2004 12:00:16 AM PDT by SAMWolf
free dixie,sw
BTTT!!!!!!!
I believe you're correct.
It shouldn't be forgotten. There is absolutely no moral equivalency between the treatment of the Poles by Germany and the Germans by Poland.
I know that feeling. It's the feeling I have when I see my Flag flying. It's the feeling I have when I read about or watch film of some of the events and people in my Country's history. It's a hard feeling to put into words. It comes from deep inside your soul. It's a feeling I fear a lot of people in America no longer have and that scares me. It's a feeling that some groups and politicians are trying their best to suppress in this Country. I complain a lot about my government but I love my Country, there's no where on earth like it. I'm sure that's the way you feel about Poland.
No I wouldn't, but it scares me that so many of my fellow countrymen either seem to want to change what America has always stood for or they pay no attention to the attempts to change it. If they don't wake up it'll be too late. Freedom's lost are harder to regain than they are to hold on to. Poland has learned that lesson, sometimes I think we've forgotten it. Too much "taking it for granted" here.
Now, when we are in the EU, we've got our own flag of the Union. I don't feel it at all!
That's how I feel about the UN flag. It represents nothing to me.
It'll be interesting to see how this mess plays out. In the old days Germany held to a timid, post-WWII foreign policy, deferring to the French who ran the show. With EU expansion the Franco-German axis can be outvoted. Britain has no intention of deferring to France. The way I read the Poles, they aren't gonna play either. The French intended this new constitution to lock in their power before it's too late, but I'm not sure it's going to turn out that way.
Thanks for the nice catch on the story of the Battle of Long Island. Mercenaries have a hard time understanding citizen soldiers.
france is trying to be the dominant power in Europe, they're just using the EU as a cover.
The whole idea that the Poles owe the Germans something for the WWII settlement is outrageous.
I think I understand Polish thinking about the German insult. It brings to mind what I'd think if the Japanese held a memorial festival for Pearl Harbor and expected us to be grateful.
Yep. They still haven't gotten over Napoleon.
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