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larryorr@att.net

Re: The 51st Country Dance (Laufen Reel), also known as St Valery' s Reel

Aug. 2, 2005, 4:26 a.m. (Message 41851, in reply to message 41822)

"...the tendency for this dance to generate new and ever more abstruse 
myths continues to fascinate and amuse me - keep them coming."

I'll do just that. 

When I was in high school, a history teacher told us that all members
of the 51st Division were executed after they surrendered at
Dunkerque.

Incidentally, when I first learned the dance, the instructor told us
that it originated during World War I.



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