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[hotwine]

Wonderful! He'll remember the experience fondly, too. And you can bet there will be some dinner-table conversations in which the kids set their parents straight on some of the biased news reports they're subjected to. Love it.

[wondersofwine]

Bravo for you and your classroom, Georgie. And bravo, for your Marine sergeant. He may inspire some of your pupils to serve their country when they grow up.

Some of the Civil Affairs reservists who passed through the library here were instrumental in saving some paintings in a looted Iraqi museum. (The paintings were in a vault but the vault was not impregnable and water was rising in the basement or something.) I don't agree with the radio talk show hosts who sneer at the idea of concern over lost Iraqi artifacts in museums. They talk as if it were nothing. You can't replace a 1000 year old vandalized or stolen statue, etc. and that part of the world was a cradle of early civilization and part of human history. I think the Americans could and should have done more to protect the museums and libraries. I know that Civil Affairs students study what cultural monuments in each country should be protected during wartime so why wasn't that in the plans?
Oh, well. Most of the war went quite well and probably 90% of Americans don't share my concern for the loss of irreplaceable artifacts. How many college students even study history of civilization any more?
Of course, I was more concerned about human lives. I'm proud of the part that Special Ops played, although some of it may remain
concealed because that's the way they operate.

[This message has been edited by wondersofwine (edited 05-13-2003).]