I don't want to spam but since I am a student of the Great War (1914-1918) and watching 60 Minutes tonight I feel compelled to post this. Seeing all the people they are showing tonight on that show who were lost on 9/11. Really really gets to me as it does most of us. The current problems in the Middle East can be traced to Biblical Times and the foundation of Islamin the 600's. But they also can be traced to political and economic realities that came to the Middle East because of World War 1.   The Mesopotamian Campaigns and the Palestinian Campaigns and Viscount Allenby's victory at Meggido in Palestine.   And the Arab Revolt that Lawrence of Arabia played such a large part in. The events of the past and the horror of the Great War haunt us and destroy us even now 84 years later. We literally exist in a War without End http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/interviews/winter13.html Jay M. Winter, Cambridge University on Kathe Kollwitz Kathe Kollwitz had a long talk with her son, Peter, when he decided to volunteer in 1914; and she gave him her blessing, and regretted it for the rest of her life. It is clear that she felt that he had done this act through idealism, through a spirit of self-sacrifice (which was similar to her own beliefs)

Thanks for posting this, David.  Very nice article on pbs. If you haven't read it yet, I'd highly recommend reading The Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin.  If I had to pick a favorite book, that would be the one. susan David Halpern <*remove*photonicband...@earth_link_.net wrote I don't want to spam but since I am a student of the Great War (1914-1918) and watching 60 Minutes tonight I feel compelled to post this. Seeing all the people they are showing tonight on that show who were lost on 9/11. Really really gets to me as it does most of us. The current problems in the Middle East can be traced to Biblical Times and the foundation of Islamin the 600's. But they also can be traced to political and economic realities that came to the Middle East because of World War 1. The Mesopotamian Campaigns and the Palestinian Campaigns and Viscount Allenby's victory at Meggido in Palestine. And the Arab Revolt that Lawrence of Arabia played such a large part in. The events of the past and the horror of the Great War haunt us and destroy us even now 84 years later. We literally exist in a War without End http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/interviews/winter13.html Jay M. Winter, Cambridge University on Kathe Kollwitz Kathe Kollwitz had a long talk with her son, Peter, when he decided to volunteer in 1914; and she gave him her blessing, and regretted it for the rest of her life. It is clear that she felt that he had done this act through idealism, through a spirit of self-sacrifice (which was similar to her own beliefs)

Spam away, but please put NBC in the subject line.  I don't mind the political stuff, but I prefer to get mine elsewhere.  Thanks.