Re: NAC Units, Why do we only talk about British Units
From: devans@u...
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:12:03 -0600
Subject: Re: NAC Units, Why do we only talk about British Units
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On the subject of why British Regiments behave like noone else really
counts
one has to think about time scale. I am English and live in England, and
there are biudings still standing near where I live that are older than
the
US by a number of centuries.
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Not to worry, US'ers are not unaware of this. I recall, back in college,
about three decades ago, a French hitchhiker who was 'crashing' at our
house related his gentle humor, he refrained on comments, at being told
of
this or that building being over a century old. His dorm in Paris was in
a
building aged over a thousand years.
However, Americans have been doing a fair job of making traditions out
of
relatively young groups or organizations, and I've no doubt that the
monarch would find it useful to try to grow such amongst each
constituent
of the confederation. That would include traditions starting after our
own
time period.
The_Beast