CIVIL RITES
Then there’s that story set in wartime Britain, about an American soldier took his last cigarette and threw the empty package on the sidewalk. A British matron quietly reminded him that he had dropped something.
“Oh, I don’t want it,” he said.
Her stern reply “Neither do we!”
Les Franck
West Hills
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