All that the wars with which it’s involved are getting the U.S. is deeper in debt. From Bill Bonner at bonnerprivateresearch.com:
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Bill Bonner, reckoning today from Normandy, France…
‘My generation… we’ve given nothing. We’ve given nothing! And now we want to screw our grandchildren…We’ve got to stop guys, we’re DRUNK….We’re digging this deep hole…What are we doing here?’
~ Stanley Druckenmiller
It is All Souls day. What do the shades have to say about us?
Driving through Normandy this morning we passed through the town of Vimoutiers. There is nothing special about the town. Like so many others in Normandy, it was largely destroyed by Allied firepower in WWII. Today, it is drab. Uninteresting. Nothing to see.
But in the town is a plaque recalling an instance of private generosity. Margaret Mitchell, author of ‘Gone with the Wind,’ had heard about what had happened during the war. She sent a check to rebuild the town’s hospital. In return, she was made an honorary citizen. She wrote a thank-you:
“Nothing that has happened to me before has ever pleased and touched me as much as this honor which you and the Municipal Court of Vimoutiers have paid me.”
She intended to visit the town, but was killed in a car crash in 1949. She was dead…but she left things behind that would be remembered and appreciated for generations.
