Klementi Voroshilov

Everybody hates Nazis, except other Nazis.

Tomorrow in the US is Veterans' Day, but in Europe it is known as Armistice Day.  Unlike the US, it isn't just a day off for early Christmas shopping, but a day to remember the end of the most terrible, wasted war of all time, WWI.  Le Geurre Mondiale.  Millions of lives thrown away for absolutely no purpose. Tomorrow, we'll gather around flagpoles and monuments to the dead (we have them everywhere here in France--every single village) and say a prayer for the end of war.

Sorry to hear about the loss of Patrick Ireland, a great teacher of ASL who was always available on the VASL server for a chat or to help out newbies.  He will be missed.

While the Sixth SS Panzer Army was lavished with the best equipment that the Reich could scratch together in 1945, the Second Panzer Army was apportioned with only a handful of tanks.  The Second actually had farther to go and faced the 3rd Ukrainian Front straight on.  The Sixth would attack the nexus of the Third and Second in a more fair fight.

I received the ASL Action Pack #14 yesterday--great, fast shipping from MMP.  But man, shipping costs are freaking killing me.  $24 for the Pack.  $24 for shipping.