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>>>Yeah, surface-to-air missile batteries on top of apartment buildings in London - that's truly the Olympic spirit.
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>>yes and no - I remember Munich games vividly...
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>With respect, I'd argue you should not remember the Munich games so vividly.
I wasn't in Munich but I remember pretty vividly the impact it had on those in my world at the time. ( Isn't Thomas close to my age?)
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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