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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 5:39 am Post subject: Mark Steyn on Memorial Day:"The loss of proportion" |
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This Memorial Day weekend we, in this forum I'm confident, all have our personal antennas tuned to commentary elevating and extolling the significance of our annual tribute to The Fallen.
I thought I'd drop by Mark Steyn to see what he had to offer and was not disappointed by the reprise of a column from 2004...it got better with age.
Here's a taste...drop by his website for the main course...
| Quote: | The loss of proportion
by Mark Steyn
from The Chicago Sun-Times, May 30th 2004
Playing by Gore-Kennedy rules, the Union would have lost the Civil War, the rebels the Revolutionary War, and the colonists the French and Indian Wars. There would, in other words, be no America.
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GenrXr
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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The last four paragraphs are Steyn at his best.
| Quote: | More than 600,000 Americans died in the Civil War - or about 1.8 percent of the population. Today, if 1.8 percent of the population were killed in war, there would be 5.4 million graves to decorate on Decoration Day.
But that's the difference between then and now: the loss of proportion. They had victims galore back in 1863, but they weren't a victim culture. They had a lot of crummy decisions and bureaucratic screw-ups worth re-examining, but they weren't a nation that prioritized retroactive pseudo-legalistic self-flagellating vaudeville over all else. |
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Fort Campbell
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| An excellent editorial. Well worth the read on this Memorial Weekend. |
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