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Thanks, Nightingale. I should also add that, at last, it seems we Brits are recognizing the massive contribution made by the various troops from what was then the British Empire, i.e. Indians, Canadians, Australians, etc. The French too are at last spotlighting the help provided by the "tirailleurs sénégalais" - mainly black West Africans, Algerians, Polynesians and others. And to
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16. True - but the operation is free, no payment required...

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17. Re: May 8

indeed, Kentish, it took amazing courage. My father spent the war following his father around as he was posted to various RAF airfields. At one of them (either Kirton Lindsey or Church Fenton, I forget which) there were American bomber squadrons (Flying Fortresses doing daytime raids, if I remember correctly) and my dad became something of an "airbase mascot". He still tells, with tears
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18. Re: May 8

Thanks for this, Kentish. Here in France, we celebrate it every year with a public holiday - and rightly so. Yesterday, I went with my wife and youngest daughter to visit my wife's 102-year-old aunt, who spent the year and a half before may 8th 1945 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was sent for being part of the French resistance (like her sister, my MIL), having lost her fiancé to
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19. +10

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20. Re: The spirit of truthiness like a fire is burning

Certainly not. JS wanted their money, property... and wives.
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21. Re: SCOTUS To Decide On Oklahoma Public Catholic Schools

Just to be clear: could parents in the US demand that their children should not be obliged to read the bible? Here in France, with its non-religious system, my children did read small parts of the bible for a few weeks as part of the literature curriculum, but otherwise, it's banned from schools. I suspect (I'll check) that the same applies to LGBTQ books (or books that mention sexuality): if
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22. Or perhaps they were the rocks he was smoking...

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23. Are you the only one who escaped?

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24. I agree

Although no longer a christian, I do know what christianity is about because it was drilled into me from my birth until the age of 16 (when Divinity was no longer a mandatory subject at school). The evangelical version (sometimes merged with prosperity gospel nonsense) is not christian. No turning of the other cheek, no "do unto others as you would be done by", no Good Samaritan, but se
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25. +1 :-D

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26. Re: How did you conclude there was no evidence to evidence for....

Indeed, god supposedly spoke to him directly.
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27. Good post

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