[dfwgator]

Rotterdam

Warsaw

Coventry

So why should I shed any tears over Dresden.

[cayuga]

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

[andy58-in-nh]

Thank you. I have been in each of those cities as well as Dresden. Scars from WWII remain, even as such memories fade into the mists of time and yet still ache like absent shattered limbs long since turned to dust.

Through my father, I knew men who once flew missions over Germany. It was a solemn and rare occasion when they spoke of their experiences and then, I recall not boastful pride but instead halting whispers, and human eyes fixed distantly upon circumstances they clearly wished no one else to ever again endure.