If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq .. You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services.

Please send a card. It is FREE and it only takes a second.

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"War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
- Union General William Tecumseh Sherman


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I feel bombs falling in my veins, napalm exploding in my blood, the shrapnel of splintering nuclear ash slicing my cells to pieces.

This was so long ago.

To me, it is Thom Yorke's best vocal performance.

It used to remind me of Princess Diana. It was obviously abstract allegory. It now seems pointed allegory.

The video says more than it did back then.

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Kar-Wai's 'My Blueberry Nights' has opened the festival to mixed reviews. Check a trailer of it here.

Also check out Orson Welles with tongue in cheek followed by Jean Cocteau at the 12th festival below:

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Quite a francocinematic experience last night: First I watched Max Ophuls' The Earrings of Madame de... with my mother. I had never seen it before. I do not know what to say now after. It can't really be amongst the greatest movies ever, that is except to me or a select few, can it? It is romantic melodrama and yet gets so many things right, ( Read more... )

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