Assuming the mantle of courage and sacrifice of the wartime resistance movements seem extremely unserious in the present circumstances.
There is much to be said for opposing much of what Mr. Trump is about, but you're not the Maquis. You're just not.
Jane and IL, your comments made me think of how much I love this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT7CVDiCDQI
Related:
I highly recommend a visit to Norway's Resistance Museum in the Akershus Fortress in Oslo if you are ever in the area. It's well worth the time. (The bit of the exhibits devoted to the behaviour and fate of Norwegian school teachers was very awe inspiring, for instance.)
The Norwegians are pretty cool. After they executed Quisling (right in the square of that fortress, by happenstance) they turned Quisling's home/mansion into their Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities.
Sic semper tyrannis.
As Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
My youngest son attended college in South Carolina. It was a bit of a culture shock but I have to say I was pleased when he came home on Spring break and vacations with stories about how his roommate and others kept reminding him to say, "Yes, sir" and "yes mam."
My first miscue down there happened at an outlet mall. I purchased something and in checking out I handed the clerk a twenty dollar bill. She took it and said, "Chaiyange for a tweenie." I was befuddled. "I'm sorry", I said. "What?" She held up the bill and repeated, "Chaiyange for a tweenie?" I must have looked like deer in headlights.
Although it's not southern, in Pennsylvania where I spent part of my childhood, for the plural of "you", they would say "Yins".....which is a contraction of "You-ins". haha.....that doesn't make sense either.
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