[meteorite-list] freebies and mini gao sales<--AD?????

[GREG LINDH]

       Hi Darren,

    What you wrote is true, but it is *shame*, and I use that word 
literally.

    Greg Lindh



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] freebies and mini gao sales<--AD?????


> On Sat, 26 May 2007 19:44:36 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >    As a Vietnam Era veteran, I'll second your feeling that this should
> >absolutely be a time a reflection.
>
> And-- it won't be.  People who aren't thinking of veterans the other 362 
> days of
> the year (plus Memorial day and 4th of July) won't be thinking of them on 
> those
> three days.  Special days set aside for remembering something only work 
> for
> those who think of those events/concepts already.  People (who aren't 
> already
> Christians) don't think about Jesus on Christmas.  People (who aren't 
> Irish)
> don't think about the trials of St. Patrick on St. Patrick's Day.  People 
> don't
> think about the martyredom of St Valentine on Valentine's day.  For almost
> everybody, "holidays" are just days off work, or days to eat Turkey, or 
> days to
> wear green, or days to give and get presents.  Jumping on Steve for not 
> being
> all solemn about Memorial Day to me is little less silly than jumping on 
> him for
> saying "Saint Paddy's Day"-- he is only doing what 99.9% of all other 
> Americans
> do.
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