Gabriel (my four-year old son): That statue (on the village green) looks like the Statue of Liberty.

Ms BigDog: Yes. It's actually a statue that was put up after a war to remember people who fought in it.

Gabriel: You mean a statue of peace?

Ms BigDog: Yes.

Gabriel: That's because after a war everyone is in pieces.

(written down verbatim as soon as she was certain she wouldn't have a stroke from laughing so hard)

Relevance to Y2K? Oh .... .never mind.

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), October 14, 1999

Answers

LOL

Oh my, this forum is really going to the dogs.

BD, are you sure you don't need a short vacation?

-- de (delewis@XOUTinetone.net), October 14, 1999.

...out of the mouth of babes...

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), October 14, 1999.

did he say 'war is pieces' or 'war is feces?'

just a thought

-- Cowardly Lion (cl0001@hotmail.com), October 14, 1999.

CL, I am certain that the concept that no war can be a just cause would be a tough sell to the inmates of Nazi concentration camps who were rescued by war, or the inmates of Communist Russian/Chinese/Vietnamese concentration camps who were not (those who survived, that is). "Verdun is preferable to Auschwitz" is an old saying; go talk to some Carthaginians if you don't agree.

www.y2ksafeminnesota.com

-- MinnesotaSmith (y2ksafeminnesota@hotmail.com), October 14, 1999.

Okay, let me get this straight. The alternative to war is incarceration and/or death? Seems to me there are a few other choices in between, eh? How about cooperation, mutuality, to name just two. The top destroyer of wealth, ideas and life for, say, 5,000 years or more has been war. "Peacekeeper missiles, ya that's what we'll call them...then nobody will notice what we're really doing. Collateral damage,...yep...that's the ticket." When the only available tool is a hammer everything begins to look like a nail, and 180 degrees from wrong is still wrong, no matter how time-honored the 'tradition'.

One smart kid, your Gabriel, Ms Big Dog. :-) Hugs for Gabriel!

-- Donna (moment@pacbell.net), October 14, 1999.

MinnesotaSmith

you jumped on that one as hard as i would have, but you misunderstood my answer. 'war is hell,' or whatever you want to call it. that doesn't mean it isn't necessary, just and moral to fight an aggressor. i will gladly take up arms in defense of freedom and my loved ones. while always better than surrender and slavery, that still doesn't make it a 'good' choice.

just wanted to make sure you knew where i was coming from.

-- Cowardly Lion (cl0001@hotmail.com), October 15, 1999.