Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheeked West German and the pale, intense Frenchman stood outside the monastery church at Birnau, overlooking Lake Constance, near the West German-Swiss border. A Cistercian monk uttered words of welcome. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl lifted his arms to the skies, clear after a daylong rain, and smiled: "Thank you, Prior, for we have been praying all day for the weather to improve." The quip brought a laugh from Kohl's companion, French President Francois Mitterrand...
This is the last regular-season edition of The Crimson. All of us here at The Crimson wish you a pleasant summer, and thank you for reading...
Justice delayed, insists the legal axiom, is justice denied. Some similar principle must apply to gratitude. When offered too late it turns into something else, a thank-you made soggy by the slop-over of guilt and apology. It was scarcely surprising, then, that many Viet Nam War veterans were somewhat wary when New York City cranked up a welcome-home parade ten years after the end of the conflict...
...vintage Big Apple, a ticker-tape parade through the canyons of lower Manhattan. Blizzards of litter (duly calculated to be 468 tons). Bands blaring (God Bless America and The + Caisson Song). Onlookers shouting down from skyscraping heights. Placards and posters flashing and bobbing (YOU'RE OUR HEROES and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICES). Throngs (perhaps a million, according to police) cheering, clapping and even weeping at streetside. The guests of honor, some 25,000 strong, were a wonderfully motley montage of sloppy fatigues, permanent-press suits, blue jeans, camouflage twills, blow-dried hair, scraggly beards, relic berets. They added...
While the overdue welcome home overwhelmed most veterans with its warmth, the parade failed to move some who have been left bitter by years of public indifference. Ex-Marine Jerry White, 35, could not accept it as a thank-you. Said he: "It's more like a political convention or something." Army Veteran John-Paul Body, 36, took part only reluctantly, wary of "romanticizing the war." Afterward he dipped into the vocabulary of psychospiritualism to offer his appraisal: "It was more like an exorcism." Still, no matter how dark or ambiguous their emotions, few seemed to disagree with...