Lest we forget and the mouse trap

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In Memoriam

The 66,033 American Servicemen Buried Somewhere in France

  Who Died Fighting to Free the French Nation.

 

In Aisne-Marne:  3,349    In Somme:  2,177   In Brittany:  4,908   In Oise-Aisne:  6,253

 In Epinal:  5,679  In Normandy: 10,944  In Rhone-Dragungnan: 1,155   In Lorraine:  10,933  

 In Meuse-Argonne:  15,200   In St. Mihiel:  4,437   In Suressnes: 998

 

Requiescat in Pace

 

Subject: The Mouse Trap

A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. What food might it contain?  He was aghast to discover that it was a mouse trap!  Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning, "There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house."

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell you this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me; I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mouse trap in the house."  "I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse," sympathized the pig, "but there is nothing I can think of to do about it.  Surely someone else will step in to help."  The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, "Like wow, Mr. Mouse, a mouse trap; am I in grave danger, Duh?"

So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected to face the farmer's mouse trap alone.  That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.  In the darkness, she did not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.  The snake lunged out and bit the farmer's wife.  The farmer rushed her to the hospital.  She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

His wife's sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.  The farmer's wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.

So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when even the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk.  And so it may be with Germany, France and Belgium one day....

·         Maybe the Iraqi disarmament would go a lot faster if the Arabs could only read the French labels on the missiles.

[Super Dave]

Yes, thank you.

Hind sight is 20/20, but if the writing is on the wall in front of you, read it.