Re: Todays students knowledge
wannemacher (wannemacher@LAMERE.NET)
Mon, 12 May 1997 13:35:56 -0400
Your thoughts moved me deeply. Thank you for sharing them.
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> From: Eberhard Weber <glosys@PSNW.COM>
> To: MEMORIES@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: Re: Todays students knowledge
> Date: Monday, May 12, 1997 5:20 AM
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> The reason for this story is to underscore how war itself impacts a life
> far beyond the specific experiences, in my case half a world away. It
> started in 1962 when, on our honeymoon, I went to Hawaii and saw the
> monument of the Arizona and the radar site on Kauai where the off-duty
> radio operators first saw the swarm of japanese planes. I had not
> thought much about the war after arriving in the US in 1958 until the
> sights of that war once again caught up with me, dramatically driving
> home the point that WWII was indeed a world wide war.
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> For this list this may not be an interesting story. But in my mind it
> points directly to what I believe we wish to address, that wars
> do not stop even when they are over, and that no matter how much we
search
> and probe, the message we seek to deliver does not lie in the stories
> themselves so much as in their meaning as it relates to war itself,
> wherever it may be fought, whoever may fight it or for whatever reasons.
> So, pardon the departure from direct experiences, please, and try to
> understand that even in telling them the 'teller' him or herself is
> still searching for answers where none may perhaps ever be found for such
> insanities. And the search goes on ....
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> Best regards to you all
>
> Eberhard Weber
> The Berlin schoolboy
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