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O X I D A Y 28 OCTOBER, 1940 LEST WE FORGET THE 28th OF OCTOBER, 1940! THE FIRST ALLIED VICTORY IN WWII The magnificent Greek holiday Oxi Day is celebrated every year in Greece on October 28th and mostly remembered for General Ioannis Metaxas' strong reply of 'OXI' (no) to Mussolini's request to allow Italian troops to come into Greece at the beginning of WWII. The result of this stern message was powerful, and in the end, helped to maintain Greece's course of neutrality for generations to come. Nevertheless, the Italians did invade Greece, but were subsequently driven back...

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 Letters to the Editor See the good Americans are doing By GLENN MUELLER, Bismarck (The writer is serving in Iraq with the 957th Engineering Co. of the North Dakota Army National Guard. -- Editor) Evil is like cancer -- the longer it is left unattended, the more it spreads and becomes life-threatening to that which is good and healthy. Saddam is an evil, self-serving human being who, in my opinion, viewed himself as the god of Iraq, maybe even as the god of Muslims. He reminds me of Jim Jones, whose cult resulted in so many...