one more thing about Paul Fussell, while we're talking about _Class_ that book is a lot of fun, but I think _The Great War and Modern Memory_ might be more important
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i don't know that there are any action items here. remember that the past is a strange world and some day we will be Past. memento mori, but for everything that you have known and grown to love. this too shall pass
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postscript. Tolkein fought in WWI and lost many of his friends. he conceptualized much of the story of middle earth and the elegiac theme of the Marring of Arda during the war while his friends died and he mouldered in a hospital makes u think
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It is interesting to note that the forces shaping our children’s views are so dissimilar to our own. Mb that is one reason they rarely fear what we fear.
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congratulations

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Mine won't know that it was really weird when Donald Trump started running for president
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