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Posted on 05/26/2019 2:31:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
Adapting the phrase from the Roman poet Horace, Wilfred Owen during World War I turned "it is was sweet and seemly to die for one’s country" into an anti-war poem. He may have had a point when it came to that war, a war that destroyed the very best of Europe’s young men and, in my view, set it on a downward spiral. Today Western Europe, with all its glorious architecture, art, and music seems like a living Disneyland.
Take, for example, the fire that gobbled up the roof and spire of one of Paris’ most enduring symbols, Notre Dame. The cathedral was built over a long period of time (almost two centuries) as a testament to faith and a binding treasure of a nation. The embers still glowed when architects floated notions of redoing it into, among others, the base of an amusement-meditation center with a swimming pool rooftop:
Stockholm-based firm Ulf Mejergren Architects this week unveiled its plan to turn the roof into a giant cross-shaped public pool — guarded by the statues of the 12 apostles that were untouched by the inferno as they had already been removed for restoration, the World Architecture community said in a press release.The contemporary design would draw attention to the “publicness” of the cathedral, and the swimming pool would serve as “a new meditative space with unmatched views over Paris,” the firm said, according to the release.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”. Reference to a poem. Benefits of a classucal education.
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Memory Eternal. Amen
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Sadly I think she is wrong. 20 years ago she would have been correct, but not in today's Europe. I pray I am wrong, but I doubt that is the case. She is right about America, I pray that is the case!!!!
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Memorial Day salutaions, FRiends.
George S Patton agreed with you.
I do, to, for what little that is worth ...
“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”.
Thanks for the post; ping. GREAT article by Clarice Feldman. BUMP.
You’re welcome PGalt.
Good news,the nationalists won.
Yeah that restores some faith, but I admit I am shocked. 8>)
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