Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/11

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Subject: [Leica] Viva Canada!
From: Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 00:56:25 +0000

"Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com> wrote:

> Just remember Dave,  if not for the Americans you would be speaking 
> and writing in German not English.

It's been only several weeks since I stood on Juno Beach in Normandy,
and saw the terrain that the Canadians took on D-Day. Fair Canada's 
sons pulled more than their weight on that day, and during the months 
that followed.

As Peter knows, I have a rather permissive sense of humor, but 
I think that this 'joke' demeans the memory of the thousands of
Canadians who gave their lives fighting Hitler.

- -Alexey
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            | only half-heartedly....     - Marc Bloch, 1940