Writer's Block: Hello, World!

[mlknchz]

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Watching JFK's funeral. I would have been about 2 years old. I didn't know what was happening, but I remember the room the TV was in, and seeing my sisters and mom crying. It was their crying that made it memorable.

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[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

Your mother was a remarkable woman, I can see where you get your strength of character.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Well, that is an underestimation of sorts;) but still true. In case I have anything of the kind (thank you so much for a real compliment), it does come from two sources, though: My father had quite a few things to stand straight for and despite of, even as a boy, too. I even think, this is how they found each other despite being the allegedly most beautiful couple of the Altmark at the time;) I am glad to have had them, both, as my parents. Others have their strangely similar memories from other countries, borders, wars. One would like to hope, it would be possible to concentrate on something constructive, instead, wouldn´t one? But, as I think the historian Ranke said: we can only try and see, how it truly was... and then there´s the famous quote about how a people not aware of its history, doesn´t have a future. Acknowledging how it has been, without dodging for truth, might give us all that oppportunity, still.