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To: portage who wrote (31086)	4/8/2003 11:51:09 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

First time I was in Canada, I saw people wearing a poppy on their lapel. Asked my friend what was that about. She said it was to remember the armistice day. What, I reasoned? This happened in 1918!!! Those folks wearing the poppy are 25 to 60 (or 60 something) years old. They weren't even born. They just read in the history books or from their grand parents. But the whole thing is part of the national identity thing. The herding up of the sheep under the same grassland. Have those Americans -who have their Remembrance Day, to rememeber the fallen in other wars- learned something of the past mistakes? Apparently not. In 30 years, those guys who survives this war, will be like the Vietnam veternas of today. Coming to Vietnam to pounder about the stupidity of the whole exercise. Then a next generation comes and do the same shit again. It is in the DNA I guess.