Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just hope somebody told him that the Allies were fighting Nazi Germany, and that the Soviet Russians were on our side. Douglas Jim Shulman schrieb: >Best to tell Laura--according to published reports, he leaves the heavy >reading to her. She'll be sure to pass the word along over breakfast. > >Jim Shulman >Bryn Mawr, PA > >-----Original Message----- >From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org >[mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tim >Atherton >Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 2:26 AM >To: Leica Users Group >Subject: [Leica] The President, D-Day and History > >Having watched a couple of D-Day documentaries over the last couple of days, >and also a couple of pieces on Capa's D-Day pictures (leica-ish content), >and also one about the cameramen on the beaches, I then read this evening >that President Bush apparently believes WWII started with the attach on >Pearl Harbour (at least he said so to the students at the US Air Force >Academy last week). > >I certainly hope someone is going to put him right before he speaks to the >D-Day veterans. All I can say is that it certainly would have been news to >my Grandfather, under fire on the beach at Dunkerque in 1940, that the war >didn't start until a year and a half later... > >The idiocy is astounding > > >tim atherton > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- 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/