Memorial Day 2009

[rich]

I posted this elsewhere but since its Memorial Day and I'm a cynical Sicilian

exchange b/w sonny and michael at the end of Godfather 2--

(Dec 1941 at time of Pearl Harbor)

TESSIO
I understand thirty thousand men enlisted this morning.

SONNY
A bunch of saps.

MICHAEL
Why are they saps?

SONNY
...They're saps because they risk their lives for strangers.

MICHAEL
Now that's Pop talking.

SONNY
You're god damn right that's Pop talking.

MICHAEL
They risk, they risk their lives for their country.

SONNY
Your country's not your blood -- you remember that.

MICHAEL
I don't feel that way

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Thinking, among much else, of the bones of the soldiers in the bottom
> of the lake in C of L49 before post-WW2 America used them as filters for
> cigarettes......
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> Eliade, among other writers on religious belief in human communities, observes
> how sacred are the bones of ancestors in almost all communities......
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