Word: morgarten
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...past a military tradition. Military, mind you, not militaristic. Even though the Swiss have not fought actively in 100 years, the tradition is completely alive. In some parts of Switzerland, masses for the dead are said every year for soldiers who fell in the glorious encounter at Morgarten in 1315. That fight was against invading Habsburgs, who never could, nor apparently can, keep their rapacious hands off a free people...
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