It makes you wonder...

Where i am presently working the office is divided into three large banks of desks, on one is the people who handle payments for private/individual clients, one has the Corporate (including yours truely) and Regular payments desks and the middle one has the people who answer the phones.

On the far wall we have a large Flat-Screen television that shows the NBC financial channel all day long, lots of Americans waffling about oil prices, takeovers and the like - Today all the US finiancial markets are closed due to a National Day of Mourning and this is being mentioned quite frequently as you would perhaps expect.

One of the girls stared quite intently at this for some moments before expressing her surprise that the Americans would have a day of mourning for Saddam Hussain.

I quite understand someone not knowing who Gerald Ford was, him not being the most well known of US Presidents - but good lord, have a think....