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[Wilson Gray]

"Jay Baird"? Some parents are heartless.

-Wilson


On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2008 Jay W. Baird _Hitler's War Poets_ (Cambridge: C.U.P.) 1: When naive
> youth, like their mythical Greek forbearer Icarus, ...launched their own
> flight to death.
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> Dr. Baird is Professor of History Emeritus at Miami University.
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> JL
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-Wilson
–––
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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