Hello!  Happy Memorial Day everyone!!!  Thank you to all those great men who died fighting to serve our country. 

Did You Know?

- The number of U.S. armed forces personnel who served in World War II between Dec. 1, 1941, and Dec. 31, 1946 was 16.1 million.

- The average length of active-duty by U.S. military personnel during WWII was 33 months.

- The proportion of U.S. military personnel who served abroad during WWII was 73 percent.

- A total of 292,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines were killed in battle in WWII.

- The number of other deaths sustained by U.S. forces during WWII was 114,000.

- 671,000 U.S. troops were wounded during WWII.

- 5.7 million World War II veterans were counted in the 2000 Census. The census identified the period of service for World War II veterans as September 1940 to July 1947.

- The estimated number of women in 2002 who were WWII veterans was 210,000. These women comprised 4.4 percent of WWII vets.

- The median age of WWII veterans when the last census was conducted was 76.7 years old.

- The projected national expenditure for veteran’s benefits in 2004 was $62 billion.

Data courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! It's not even over yet!!

-Sneha

Hi,

my name is Shameeta, I'm a friend of Arpan's from Swadhyay(our sunday school/church type organization).  Over the past few months I've been thinking alot about gay marriage, or civil unions or whatever else you would like to call it.  I have run across a few different viewpoints, and I was curious to learn about other's viewpoints, and why they feel that way towards this topics.  So, if you would like to respond, just answer whether you are for or against the legalization of civil unions, and why.  I am especially interested to hear opinions from a religous standpoint.

~Shameeta

it was too commercial

heylo! wut up everyone! notta lotta here,just got home. so i watched waking life tonight- and let me tell you, its good but quite crazy. ah, what else- well i had a grad party- and it went great! a band came and played out on the pool deck for a lil while- but then they had some problems and had to stop but it's all good! i loved having my crazy, random, mix of friends together!! it's totally crazy, but i have to say i like small groups better. it's hard to connect in large groups of people- just my own opinion.i loved seeing everyone from bagc! it's cool to know there will always be some people there to fall back on- gives me more confidence for the future. anywho- that's all my ramblings for now - check out my xanga for more on ME!

Debika. Smile.

ahhh arpan! it's ami

well...here's ur randomness:

my friend n i were discussing how butt implants actually exist now... n she started wondering if they would shift out of place when u were running...n then she brought up why they don't just create bras for butts... you know? cuz it would be soo much cheaper... n then we went into how they would start making the bras in different colors n kinds...including push-up butt bras! can you imagine how weird that would be??? and then they'd start making pants even lower, so that the butt cleavage would show!!! this all leads to so many DEEP thoughts...haha...but really...your imagination's gonna go crazy!???!!!

newho, i'll end it here before it gets any weirder! sorry if anyone's deeply disturbed!

AMI

hey pandaman its hamsa.

im going to try and be concise and honest. i was talking to a friend of mine today, and the consensus we sorta came to is that we think too much to be happy with the simple things in life the way we could as children. at the same time, we dont think enough to fully appreciate the simple things in life the way we ought, or really dont think enough to find meaning and purpose in the motions that everyone seems destined to go through. does what im saying make any sense? am i just babbling again? i do that a lot...

~hamsa