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Originally Posted by TheSpyder
I'm half English with my mother coming here from London during WWII when the last V2 bomb the German's dropped landed on her families apartment building killing her mother, father, and brother.
60 years later I am in Cambridge, Englnad at the Duxford Air Force Base and there's a US cemetary for all the figher pilots that served during that time to fight off the Germans in the same battle that killed my mother's family, but saved her by winning the battle.
It was then I realized what memorial day means as I looked over the tomb stones that literally are the reason I exist.
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938)
When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets.
Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit
they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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