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> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Hord
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 3:29 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT][WOT] ANZAC Day - April 25th
> 
> 
> > I was commenting on the religious content
> 
> Which I missed.
> 
> > However now I'm upset
> 
> !
> 
> > Just because it's respected in your country does that mean 
> that no one
> > else can object
> > What if I were German, or any other nationality that 
> suffered losses on
> > the other side?
> > What if I were Muslim?
> 
> Again, if you had read further than the briefest of scans 
> into the material,
> you'd have learned that the Turks who died fighting these men consider
> them to be heroes as surely as though they were their own 
> sons.  I find
> that admirable and quite rare, and more worthy of comment than
> perhaps any other aspect of this.
> 
> > ANZAC Day - April 25th
> > DOES ANYONE THINK THE PICLIST IS THE PLACE FOR THIS?
> 
> Under [EE], [PIC], [BUY], [AD], [SX], [AVR], no.  Under [OT], quite.
> 
> The thing I appreciate more than anything else about the 
> PICList is its
> multinational nature.  I consider it my best link to the greater world
> outside my "door", so to speak.
> 
> Consider this:  if at some point in the history of your nation, 10% of
> its population was abroad, literally on the other side of 
> globe, fighting
> in a war which had NO direct involvement on your life 

So without being threatened you attack another country and kill how many
people?


(no one was
> bombing your cities, torpedoing your cruise ships, etc.), and 10%
> of those fighting (1% (!) of your nation) were killed in a 
> single event,
> would you want it forgotten a scant 90 years later?
> 
> For an American, consider it this way:  Imagine that one day, at
> 9 a.m., ever single WalMart in the nation simultaneously exploded,
> killing all inside.  That's approximately the scale of percentile
> population loss being discussed here.
> 
> That's where Russell is coming from.  I only wish my country had
> that sense of history and gratitude.
> 
> Mike H.
> 
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