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The Roman Guards

I don't plan to take any such photos.

Beyond belief, it's starting to become fashionable to visit places for the enjoyment of watching the local menfolk brandish deadly weapons. In Italy, soldiers in body armor were recently deployed to stand vigil around potential terrorist sites. The Financial Times reports that in Rome, where a thousand of them appeared this summer, patrolmen quickly became tourist fodder in their own right.

KathyF (mail) (www):
Why not? I did. Of the Swiss Guards, at the Vatican, and also of the nice Italian policemen at the presidential palace who gave me directions. They were wearing white gloves and everything!

Hope you have fun. I'm envious.
9.7.2008 1:28pm
Ron Sullivan (mail) (www):
It just hasn't been the same since they started wearing pants.
9.10.2008 12:18am

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