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From: Marcel CoumontBeisig <>
Subject: Re: ww1 or 2 or 3
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:04:01 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Viola Seward wrote:

> does it really matter how one die's? my father fought in ww1 and came home
> in one piece. married and had 8 children. was divorced and some year's
> later was murdered. in my mind i think " why should some one who has given
> his life for his country come home to die so horribily". well ,we all have
> but one life and there will always be bad thing's in life so what do we do
> about it?
> i have also lost all my family now but a beautiful mentally handi capped
> sister, who does not know what the meaning of war mean's. do you think we
> would all be better off to be mentally handi capped? there would probably
> never be another war as they know naught of war, or should thing's be as
> they may? where brother turn's on brother and sister against mother. or
> just wait for two different world's to disagree about the price of gas or
> oil. i believe thing's will be because of the way are world and the people
> in it are
> always out to out do one another. when it should be " love thy neighbor as
> thy self.

> just thought my two cent's make's just as much sense as some of the thing's
> i have read.
> thank you.
> viola.

Hi Viola:

Your two cents are more priceless than many of the words which have
attempted to pass for fact or wisdom on this list in the past 24 hours.
Does it really matter if Yugoslavs were justified or not in their actions?
If someone on this list can prove that they were not, will that bring all
the blameless Germans back from the grave to enjoy a happy life. All this
finger pointing and recriminations can only lead to more hatred, bigotry,
and racism. Rather we should look for the good things we have done
together and try to do them again.

Life is to short for hatred.

Beste gruss,

Marcel.

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