"Memorial Day" – Volkstrauertag.
Tomorrow is Memorial Day. Today, the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes used 11 minutes of its air-time to display the images of all American soldiers that have died so far during the Iraq war. The underlying music was one of my favorite pieces: Samuel Barber's powerful and emotional Adagio for Strings. It makes you cry.
Andy Rooney said: "Memorial Day was originally dedicated to the soldiers who died in the Civil War. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them."
Thank you Andy!
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