>>>>I spend my early childhood gathering money (mandatory task) to pay for the bullets against GI's (aka Help for Vietnam), so don't ask me. Different world.
>>Indeed.
>>I was up that way twenty years ago on a pilgrimage to Bach. I saw the bullet holes in the buildings in Leipzig.
>>Someone had decided not to patch them up- a daily reminder.
>>You'll decide when to do that.
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>It's not hard to found the scars.
>The church next to me is a kludge (compare the two first pictures
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedenskirche_(Dresden-L%C3%B6btau)), while others look like that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionskirche,_Dresden (see German version for picture of pre '45 version) And that's the city center in the '50s
https://www.bpb.de/cache/images/7/149327-3x2-galerie_gross.jpg?A8C45>This means nothing to our nazis anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRkSYNlmugsAldous Huxley, on hearing a Beethoven string quartet, said that it proved the existence of God.
That one never did it for me, but his one is pretty close.
Some call Bach the greatest genius whoever lived.. and I agree.
You're in rare company up there.
Anyone who does not go overboard- deserves to.
Malcolm Forbes, Sr.