[Clive]

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[flowerplough]

Defiant, like these kids:

Lincoln Students Face Suspension for Letting Green Cards Fly

Fox 42 KPTM ^ | 5/21/2010 | Todd Unger

A group of Lincoln East High School students are in trouble for what some are calling a ‘racist’ celebration following the school’s state soccer title Tuesday night. Tens of dozens of students and fans rushed the field after the varsity boy’s soccer team beat Omaha South High School in overtime. As the group stormed the field, dozens of “green” index cards were thrown into the air, an apparent racial slight to the immigration status of Omaha South players. Nearly 60 percent of that school’s student body is Hispanic. “I thought it was confetti, but once I saw it close up...

[stumptalker]

Just watched the movie “In to the Storm” last night about Churchill.

[rlmorel]

"...What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Winston Churchill - June 18, 1940

I have always thought this was one of the most amazing passages in any speech, given the circumstances. Still gives me goosebumps.