It’s getting to the point that I probably shouldn’t
even point out when the History/Military Channels screw up
their programming blurbs. But I can’t help myself. I’m just hardwired that
way.
(I still have trouble remembering how to pronounce
that Norwegian playwright’s name, because I have the dyslexic “Isben” of one of
my seminar classmates in Modern European Humanities imprinted on my cortex. She
did a report on the writer of A Doll’s
House, Ghosts and Hedda Gabbler, and called him Isben
every time. I’ve actually kept my class notes because I jotted down every one
of her unique pronouncements in the left-hand margins against the stuff I
thought might be called upon in a test situation.)
Anyhow, here’s the latest, from the Memorial Day
weekend. They’ve moved the salient date of World War I up a century.
Pity they can’t do away with the four years of conflict altogether.
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