To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (7250 ) 11/14/1999 9:39:00 AM From: MonsieurGonzo Respond to
DJ:" Union "yeah - we've been unionized down here in the South ever since we lost The War of Northern Aggression in 1865 (^_^)The Revolution .the war on drugs but, we do now refer to Korea and Vietnam as "wars " - though you could get in trouble (at the time) by doing so. And some of our history books now recount The Persian Gulf War but, Kosovo/Serbia is still a current event ; ie., "conflict"...The Cold War is still blurry; we'll probably need another 50 years, the benefit of retrospect, to be able to recount the 50-year Cold War as a war , where all the survivors thereof were de facto veterans .Civil War remains the most difficult war for us to come to terms with: along with all the other war stories told and films shown, our media rarely display anything about the Civil War on Veterans day. There may be images of Medal-of-Honour winners from the Union side but, there were no such hero veterans who died in the trenches defending Richmond or, defied Sherman, for example.unionized , indeed.all our war-dead, when history says, and many of us know - some were good, and some were evil, regardless of their courage - because of their convictions. But then I can well imagine you understand this dilemma in Deutschland, there being nothing American about war or, for that matter - veterans.
