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Skriven 2006-04-06 19:52:11 av Stewart Arnett (3:772/100)
  Kommentar till text 26749 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Canadian "Skills"
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Hello FRANK.

05 Apr 06 07:42, you wrote to me:

 FS>> Asking the people of nations to merely acknowledge their
 FS>> well-known debt to the US is *hardly* "insulting" ... [sigh] ...
 FS>> are *you* insulted when you receive your monthly utility bill?
 FS>> (Assuming you receive one)

 SA>> Accusing the whole of Europe of being cowards is surely
 SA>> insulting, especially after your claim to have "been there" cadet
 SA>> Scheidt. Safe at home facing only a parade ground sergent.
 SA>> Continually rubbing salt into the wound only shows how small
 SA>> minded and senile you are, your record is cracked and stuck. You
 SA>> are becoming annoying, it is you who are a coward, by mindlessly
 SA>> accusing those who died and fought to release Europe from the
 SA>> Axis forces of being cowards, crawl back into the hole you belong
 SA>> in and don't show your face in here again.

 FS> That's what I mean by your constant insulting -- calling me a

Quote my "constant insulting" I have only twice called you senile, that in over
a year ... hardly constant is it  ...  or are you getting a little forgetfull?

 FS> coward when you don't have any reason to know if I am or if I'm
 FS> not.  But to be civil to you, even though there's doubt you
 FS> deserve it, why do you consider me a coward?  I'm really curious.

Age . March 2 1922. You could have been there if you wanted.

To remind you:

You intimated you were there and called all Europeans cowards for having been
over run by the German invaders. Then you have to back down and admit you were
safe at home in America.

While I don't begrudge America it's assistance during the European
conflageration, I do begrudge it causing my involvment in another theatre of
'war'one that was totally uncalled for at a more recent date. I still say you
are a coward, for the simple reason you have denigrated those who are unable at
this time to defend themselves. Why can they not defend themselves? for the
simple reason they died during that conflict between nations. These are the
people you have called cowards, namely Europeans, while at the same time  they
were dying, you sat safely at home in your nation reading newspapers about the
events. With those people you have also lumped in with, or coated by your broad
brush, their descendants. By doing this you have insulted myself, my father
(awarded the MC at Dunkirk) and my uncles, several of whom died during this
conflict. Your language is not that of an active war veteran, but a dreamer of
unachieved glories in days gone by and far past your comprehension.

You sir are the insult in here, not the Europeans.

Stewart

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