Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, There's nothing else to be said, thank you for your words. Douglas Nathan Wajsman schrieb: >Today is May 8th, the day World War II ended in Europe. In many >countries various solemn events are taking place. I will visit the >Commonwealth cemetery near Arnhem tomorrow morning. > >On this day, as a son of a Holocaust surviver, I want to remember and to >thank the people who made victory over Nazi Germany possible: > >- the Russians who lost 20 million people during the war and whose stand >at Stalingrad was arguably the turning point of the war, certainly on >the Eastern Front; > >- the Americans who brought their military and industrial might to bear >on the opposite side of Europe; > >- and most of all, the British, who persevered during the darkest hour >in 1940, when all of the Continent was either occupied or neutral, the >Soviet Union had its non-aggression pact with Hitler, and the USA was >happily neutral on the other side of the Atlantic. If Britain had >fallen, there would have been no Western Front, no place for the USA >from which to stage D-Day, no future for this continent. > >May their sacrifices never be forgotten. > >Nathan > > -- Ihre bevorzugten Shops, hilfreiche Einkaufs-Hilfen und gro?artige Geschenk Ideen. Erleben Sie das Vergn?gen online einzukaufen mit Shop@Netscape! http://shopping.netscape.de/shopping/