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    Memorial Day

    Memorial Day, a day to honor all Americans who have died while in the military service. Here ia a passage from the diary of a British nurse, Vera Brittain, who witnessed the American doughboys joining the battle in WW I:


    They looked larger than ordinary men; their tall, straight figures were in vivid contrast to the under-sized armies of pale recruits to which we had grown accustomed…Then I heard an excited exclamation from a group of Sisters behind me.

    “Look! Look! Here are the Americans!”

    I pressed forward with the others to watch the United States physically entering the War, so god-like, so magnificent, so splendidly unimpaired in comparison with the tired, nerved-racked men of the British Army. So these were our deliverers at last, marching up the road to Camiers in the spring sunshine!

    …An uncontrollable emotion seized me – as such emotions often seized us in those days of insufficient sleep; my eyeballs pricked, my throat ached, and a mist swam over the confident Americans going to the front. The coming of relief made me realize all at once how long and how intolerable had been the tension, and with the knowledge that we were not, after all, defeated, I found myself beginning to cry.

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    Romancing militarism and war.....

    How charming.

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    Lord, it's strange how your mind works. It's a passage from a woman's diary. A woman who experienced the war up close. I'm sure she didn't romanticize it. As a nurse she saw the horrors. She was clearly grateful that the Americans had arrived to help put an end to the horror. I imagine she had hope and faith, but romanticizing it I doubt it.

    Your chronic anti-Americanism on this forum is a sort of romanticism in itself. You believe that the world would be a better place w/o America. Now that is romanticism. Wishing away America and posting melancholy posts about its existence and its history,yep, you're a romantic.

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