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Your Views: Article on Holmes Memorial Day speech was slanted against war

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Letter to the editor

Updated: Jun 7, 2012, 4:30 AM

Published: Jun 7, 2012, 1:24 AM

The May 27 article on the Memorial Day speech by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1895 was badly slanted. The writer lifted quotes to make Holmes’ message completely different than he intended. An example: He quoted the speech as saying “War, when you are at it, is horrible and dull.”

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