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Sweet and Seemly it Still Is to Die for One's Country
American Thinker.com ^
| May 26, 2019
| Clarice Feldman
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 ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: claricespieces; memorialday
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posted on
05/26/2019 2:31:48 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”. Reference to a poem. Benefits of a classucal education.
CC
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posted on
05/26/2019 2:37:39 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
05/26/2019 2:40:33 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
05/26/2019 3:13:58 AM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: Kaslin; 5th MEB; Albion Wilde; bitt; BlackAdderess; bobfeland; burghguy; Cheerio; ComputerGuy; ...
Clarice Feldman ping.If you'd like to be on or off the Clarice Feldman ping list, usually issued only on Sunday morning, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.
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posted on
05/26/2019 6:02:41 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(No muzzy is fit to hold public office - their cult (religion) is incompatible with the Constitution.)
To: Kaslin
The head of the EU Commission derides nationalism as Stupid and the globalists in our ranks certainly agree with him. I disagree. People will not fight to defend bloated, incompetent, undemocratic international organizations like the EU or the UN. Americans wouldnt. Its mom, flag and apple pie (our national values), not Junckers. On Monday when the results of the EU elections can be published, we will find out if hes right, if Western Europe wants to scrap nationalism, or if Im right and sentiment for national sovereignty and traditions still rules the day. 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!!!!
To: upchuck; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
05/26/2019 8:20:32 AM PDT
by
bitt
(I donate all my chips to erecting electric bleachers in Gitmo!)
To: Kaslin; upchuck
Wonderful essay. Describes the America experienced by our President in his childhood, which colors his point of view today.
Memorial Day salutaions, FRiends.
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posted on
05/26/2019 12:00:55 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
To: Kaslin
I'd rather help some other guy die for his country.
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posted on
05/26/2019 1:50:30 PM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
(Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
To: JoeFromSidney
George S Patton agreed with you.
I do, to, for what little that is worth ...
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posted on
05/26/2019 1:53:42 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Kaslin
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
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posted on
05/26/2019 6:47:54 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: Kaslin; upchuck
Thanks for the post; ping. GREAT article by Clarice Feldman. BUMP.
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posted on
05/27/2019 6:47:50 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: PGalt
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posted on
05/27/2019 7:00:18 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(No muzzy is fit to hold public office - their cult (religion) is incompatible with the Constitution.)
To: Robert DeLong
Good news,the nationalists won.
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posted on
05/28/2019 4:00:05 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Biggirl
Yeah that restores some faith, but I admit I am shocked. 8>)
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