Probably I should just have dumped this on the current READERS' POST. I don't know what to say about this, and I don't expect anyone else to. Somehow, though, I just needed to get it out of MY head.
I have a friend who celebrated his 69th birthday last week, who was born in Belgium and spent the war years (that's World War II to you young-uns) in Cuba--of which he has by far his happiest memories--before the family returned to Belgium after the war.
Just for context, I had no inkling that he was LOOKING for such a thing. He just sent me an e-mail with the subject heading "German bureaucracy" which reads:
"I looked and found on the internet the name, date of birth, date of death in Auchwitz at age 62 of my grandfather...."
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
-- Sinclair Lewis
the way he's entered the race has changed the entire landscape for aspiring Democratic nominees.
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