Good try Mikael, but no. I meant in my convoluted way that as Americans we have not fallen (as a
nation) in war, as have the French, Dutch, Danes, Poles, Italians etc. Alcohol and I do not get
along and so Memorial Day is the only day each year that I will toss back a Schlitz while thinking
of all who have been removed from my xmas card mailing list from 1967->1969.
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"Mikael Seierup" <
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> "Cletus D. Lee" skrev
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> > > Memorial Day is almost upon us, the day all Americans thank the lord
we are
> > > not the French, Danes, Dutch, Polish, Italians, Greek etc.
> > >
> > I believe the holiday for giving thanks is in November. Memorial Day is the day we remember all
> > those that gave their lives so that the French, Danes, Dutch, Polish, Italians, and Greek etc.
> > are still French, Danes, Dutch, Polish, Italians, and Greek etc.
>
> Unless I'm much mistaken he was humorously referring to the fact that all you americans are in
> fact French, Danes... yada, yada if you go a few generations back.
>
> M