Afghanistan Repatriation Memorial

[Jonathan Lighter]

So weird I can't stand it.

JL

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Sarah <puellaest at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Subject:      Afghanistan Repatriation Memorial
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> This is the name of a Canadian memorial honouring Canadian soldiers that
> died in Afghanistan.
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> While the majority of Canadian soldiers were there during the "rebuilding"
> aspects; this use of "repatriation" is (as far as I know) somewhat odd.
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> While this word does have a particular Canadian sense (OED3), it isn't
> quite the same as the Queen repatriating Canada.
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> http://www.afghanistanmemorial.ca/
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> Any comments?
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> Thanks,
> S.
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