>It may comfort some to turn the Western world into a funeral home once per year, with the associated platitudes and euphemisms, but blunt talk is far more useful.
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>My very first thought on reading Mike's post was I abhor the royal "we" in cases like this. The second was "No, some people lost some of their ignorance" but it seemed a >little insensitive to post that on the anniversary. Thank you for your blunt talk.

I wholeheartedly agree.