From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #291 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Sunday, December 3 2000 Volume 05 : Number 291 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: The ultimate sacrifice for democracy. ["Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Re: Alloy: The ultimate sacrifice for democracy. Hi, Tim, I just wanted to let you know I really appreciate what you've written. Someday, I hope to visit the cemetery in Normandy where one of my mom's brothers is buried. He was a paratrooper in the D-Day invasion. (Mom's other brother vanished with his squadron in the Pacific in 1944. So many men perished in the Pacific Theater that there wasn't enough space on the initial memorial in Hawaii - his name is on the continuation of that memorial, in the Philippines. It's my goal to visit both places.) One of my friends in France grew up visiting the cemeteries in Normandy every year - he went down to lay flowers and clean headstones. His parents felt it was important for him to recognize the sacrifices made for him to be born and live free of fascism. I thought that was very, very cool. I think it's interesting that here on Alloy we have a number of people relatively young (30's) who have much older parents who served in the military in WWII. I think we're very lucky to have this uncommon (for our generation) direct bond to this era. I'm 35 and the woman I'm teamed with at work is 33, and we're both the daughters of WWII pilots (her father, my mother). I feel a great responsibility to keep the knowledge of this part of our history very much alive. I've signed up as a volunteer for the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, to go around to schools and do presentations on what my mother did during the war. I seriously fear that many young kids today have no idea what it means to make tremendous sacrifices to insure that goodness survives and darkness is vanquished (and I really mean that). Well, back to bed with me. I'm having a heck of a time readjusting to Eastern Standard Time, and my dang bronchitis is just killing me this round, so I didn't go to Montana, but I'm still taking the week off work. ;-) As far as my office knows, I'm sizzling in a jacuzzi as the snow comes down... Cheers, Melissa, Queen of the Coughing Fit Tim Hudson wrote: > Hi, > > THIS IS OFF MESSAGE BUT PLEASE READ IT...... > > To see some dramatic colour photos of the American military cemetary > here in Luxembourg - visit the site below and go to the option at the > bottom of the page marked > > 'Download Booklet with pictures (1.1 M - takes about 10 minutes)'. > > It took me 4 minutes. > > Some selected stats of the breakdown of those buried here is as follows > > By State letters > > PA 584 > NY 579 > IL 380 > OH 307 > MI 271 > MA 240 > NJ 227 > CA 211 > IN 159 > TX 153 > MO 144 > WI 143 > > 80th Infantry Division 504 > 5th Infantry Division 418 > 94th Infantry Division 410 > 26th Infantry Division 319 > 90th Infantry Division 292 > 76th Infantry Division 272 > 28th Infantry Division 163 > 4th Infantry Division 159 > 10th Armored Division 186 > 4th Armored Division 165 > 6th Armored Division 160 > 101st Airbourne 227 > > The above are just a few statistics SELECTED statistics from the 5 thousand > or so buried here. > > Incidentally, another 5000 Dead American soldiers were and I qoute > > 'Trucked to Antwerp for shipping to the United States'. So there was > at one time 10000 here in this cemetary - still a small proportion of > the seventy thousand who died fighting the half a million German Troops, > who pushed through The Ardennes in the Battle of the Bulge on DECEMBER > 19th 1944. > > 56 years ago almost to the day. > > PLEASE DONT THINK I AM A NUTTER OR A WAR FREAK I AM NOT !! > > BUT when I hear about the fight for Democracy in America and my fellow > Europeans talking about the Fight for power in Europe how can I close > my eyes to the evidence all around me of a darker time in our parents > generation. > > Please - visit the site below - take five minutes to download the booklet > with the colour pictures - it wont take 10 - and remember no matter how > much of a mess it might seem in the USA and Europe right now, > for a different generation it was much worse. > > Christmas time is the aniversary of the death of the majority of these > people and we should remember them. As we should all victims of war. > > DEMOCRACY - FOR ALL ITS FAULTS IS BETTER THAN WHAT YOU WILL SEE BELOW. > > I stood there this lunchtime. Down load the booklet. See it yourselves. > > http://www.abmc.gov/lx.htm > > 4 minutes of your time - They gave their lives. > > USA Foriegn policy does matter. Incidentally two presidents of America > have visited here both while they were Vice presidents. One was Lyndon > B. Johnson in 1963 [I was born 1/1/63] and the other was in 1984 a certain > person called GEORGE W. BUSH. > > Last year Mrs Albright delayed her flight from here to visit it too. > > -- > Tim Hudson > tim_hudson@zdnetonebox.com - email > > ___________________________________________________________________ > To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, > all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com - -- Melissa R. Jordan Director, Compass Rose Consulting International (http://www.askcrc.com) Owner/Artist, Compass Rose Studios (http://www.crstudios.com) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #291 ***************************