Spent yesterday in Manchester at the
Imperial War Museum. I am a history nut and this place had it
everywhere. It's a museum of wars throughout time. For instance,
one display had seven or eight mangled steel girders that were about
20 feet tall – they were from The Twin Towers...
Anyway, when we were done we took a
stroll through the souvenir shop and they had a book written in 1942
by the American Government. Its title was “Instructions for the
American Servicemen in Britain 1942.”
It was a small book that every soldier
received as they headed to Europe, to learn about their English
Allies.
There was one segment I'd like to share
it's entitled, “Waste Means Lives.” As you read it remember it
was written by the American Government....
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It's always said that Americans throw
more food into their garbage cans than any other country eats. It is
true. We have always been a “producer” nation. Most British
food is imported even in peacetimes, and for the last two years the
British have been taught not to waste the things that their ships
bring in from abroad. British seamen die getting those convoys
through. The British have been taught this so thoroughly that they
know that gasoline and food represent the lives of merchant sailors.
And when you burn gasoline needlessly, it will seem to them as if you
are wasting the blood of those seamen – when you destroy or waste
food you have wasted the life of another sailor.
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Pretty powerful statement...
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