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Memorial Day(Christopher Hitchens)
The Wall Street Journal ^
| May 29, 2006
| CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Posted on 05/29/2006 6:01:58 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla; Savage Beast
I still have my Grandfathers WW1 Army "trunk" (looks kinda like a musicians road case) I guess you would call it, complete with all the stickers plastered on the outside from all the ports of call and stops he made in Europe. Inside on the underside of the lid are various pics of Ladies in various stages of dress with their ankles exposed!!!!....pretty racy for that day...and a newspaper clipping of a dough boy charging forward with his rifle.
I wouldn't part with it for all the money in the world.
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posted on
05/29/2006 9:07:13 AM PDT
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: kellynla
The finest WWI memorial I ever saw was in Paris, France.(don't hit me, fellow FReepers....!)
It was not in my guidebook...I just came upon it walking around the Latin Quarter. It astounding...a huge stone carving, covering the entire wall of a building at the end of the street.
A liberty-goddess sort is in the center, holding a sword over her head, obviously ready for the down-stroke. Crushed under her foot...about to be beheaded... is a large snake. Details of both figures are very nicely executed in the stone, and the symbolism of Victory over the Enemy was NOT...as they say..."subtle".
Around this tableau are lists of French units that served and a slogan (exact wording escapes me) to the effect of "the honored dead who fought for Liberty."
The piece obviously was created when WWI still was thought to be the War to End All Wars. Very moving...
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posted on
05/29/2006 9:28:18 AM PDT
by
CarolTX
(Onward through the fog)
To: Old Professer
Christopher Hitchens is many things, no doubt, but I confess I have never heard him described in quite that manner.
Still, what you say has merit.
I believe others have stated that he suffers from pretentious diction. ;)
"... And of course, since the fish rots from the head (and also the guts, the heart, the leaping piscine genitalia and the most extreme and flapping fins, in a positive orgy of moral and linguistic deliquescence)" ... Christopher Hitchens
May I have another, please?
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posted on
05/29/2006 9:30:52 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
(Others have died for my freedom; now this is my mark ... Marine Corporal Jeffrey Starr, KIA 04-30-05)
To: kellynla
When Dalton Trumbo wrote his leftist antiwar classic "Johnnie Got His Gun," he little expected that it would be used as a propaganda tool by pro-fascist isolationists in the late 1930s, and that he would be protesting in vain that this was not what he had really meant.First of all, those isolationists may not have been "pro-fascist."
Secondly, they did get Trumbo's message alright. Dalton Trumbo published "Johnny Got His Gun" (note spelling) in 1939. He knew what he was after. Opposition to war against Hitler was the Communist Party line before the Soviet Union was itself attacked.
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posted on
05/29/2006 10:02:00 AM PDT
by
x
To: G.Mason
So, you're saying that when it comes to survival of the species, we're all thumbs?
< ]B^0)
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posted on
05/29/2006 10:07:24 AM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen, Meers.)
To: Erasmus
"
So, you're saying that when it comes to survival of the species, we're all thumbs?"
Of course. How else would we be able to bowl?
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posted on
05/29/2006 10:19:10 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
(Others have died for my freedom; now this is my mark ... Marine Corporal Jeffrey Starr, KIA 04-30-05)
To: G.Mason
I once watched him being interviewed with an obvious hangover of Olympian proportions; while sipping liquid fortification he deflected every barb and stone flung his way with that selfsame linguistic deliquescence until the interviewer was reduced to single-syllable protestation.
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:28:26 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Old Professer
"
I once watched him being interviewed with an obvious hangover of Olympian proportions; while sipping liquid fortification he deflected every barb and stone flung his way with that selfsame linguistic deliquescence until the interviewer was reduced to single-syllable protestation."
Truly amazing.
I had the great fortune of being stationed in GB in the early '60's, and have had the pleasure of imbibing with Englishmen such as he, but none as articulate or well versed. (as I remember) ;)
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:36:09 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
(Others have died for my freedom; now this is my mark ... Marine Corporal Jeffrey Starr, KIA 04-30-05)
To: kabar
Of course I meant Todd Beamer. I think I was also thinking of Rachel Scott. The wonderful thing about both of them is that they were people just like the rest of us, but they were both heroes.
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posted on
05/29/2006 7:55:22 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(The Spirit of Flight 93 is the Spirit of America!)
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