Posted on 03/15/2002 3:27:25 PM PST by knighthawk
You keep bringing up race. Tell me what "race" all these people belong to. Other than the human race.
I don't know many personaly, but I will tell you a story.
In the Netherlands we got yellow numberplates, Germans got white ones. One day we were driving through Germany to get me some computerparts. It was about an hour from the Dutch border, so we didn't quite know the way. We almost turned the wrong way, but we discovered that and a German man let us between the line of cars to turn to the other side. While he was driving behind us, he signaled to us we should pull to the side. We did and he got out and said he saw we were Dutch and asked if he could point us the way!
Here in Holland Dutch people would never do such a thing with Germans. Dutch people do not like Germans very much, but it's improving. The Germans are not the same people then back in the 1940's when they occupied Holland.
German music is not my kinda music, but I enjoy listening to some German bands like Bonfire (almost Americans these guys) and Jaded Heart (AOR/meodic). I do not know what you mean by 'martial music' (if you mean the music they played during WWII, no, I do not like it).
I do not enjoy seeing them demonized, the did a lot of wrong in WWII, but it's a new German generation. The Germans are not bad people.
And I wanted to show you a song from Bonfire about the way others look down at the Germans for what happened in WWII:
PROUD OF MY COUNTRY
I was raised in a smalltown - just a little German boy
I didn't care about history - I just cared about my toys
I never felt responsible - for what happened in a war
but they made me feeling guilty - even though I wasn't born
(that time)
I remember I was 18 - when I heard the Army call
and I learned a lot about killing man - and drinkin' alcohol
It was like a game of cowboys - the good against the bad
the others were the good guys - I was German - I was bad
Ain't nothing wrong (tell me what's wrong)- to love your home
like anyboy - in the world
Yesterday's gone - and we belong
to a new generation - singin' this song (I'm singin' my song)
I said hey
I wanna be proud of my country
proud of it's people (proud of it's banner)
proud to be free
I said hey
I wanna be proud of my country
proud I was born here
proud of Germany
Well, I made this trip to Vegas - with a friend of mine
some people heard we're German
and they called us "Nazi swines"
Do you think it's fair to blame me
for the things I haven't done
so tell me how long - will this be going on
I wanna know - if you don't know
that you're hurting me and my country
Yesterday's gone and we belong
to a new german nation
who has found it's home
I said hey
I wanna be proud of my country
proud of it's people
proud to be free
I said hey
I wanna be proud of my country
proud I was born here
proud to live in Germany
Freedom of mind - Freedom of speech
Freedom to everyone in the world
Freedom to live - Freedom to teach
Freedom of religion - and Freedom to each
And I'm no neo-nazi:
Muslims and neo-nazi's protest together against Israel (in Holland)
That's right. They're free to write what they want, just as I'm free to show them up.
It's batard.
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