OT: Slogan of the group, (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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>> > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Jonathan Lighter
>> > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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>> > > And why include "Keep Calm"?
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> No doubt a reference to the British WWII propaganda poster, "Keep Calm
> and Carry On":
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On
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> I've seen the phrase re-worked into other topics.  It has turned into a
> meme:
> http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/keep-calm-and-carry-on
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>> > WAG: An allusion to the fact that the only Spanish language approved
>> > by the government is Castilian and making too much of a point of
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>> > Catalan or any other "regional language" or "patu=E9s" publicly
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>> > get you into trouble?
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>> > --
>> > -Wilson
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My wife owns a book whose dustjacket almost exactly replicates the
placard upon which the Catalan slogan appears. The title of this book,
as displayed on the dustjacket, is

KEEP CALM
      and
CARRY ON
copyright 2010

Replace "Carry On" with "Catalan" and, ay wah la!

Day late. Dollar short.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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