Doug, You are right. I would add that it is also a matter of age and experience. At 16-20 you are immortal and have no life experience to speak of. With 25-50 more years of experience, you recognize what was lost. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Doug Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-12-16 18:59, Bob W wrote: > >>> About the same as an average, with one or two older ones. It was >>> 16-20 years ago, so maybe there is something in the idea that >>> youngsters today are inured. I sincerely hope not. >> >> I think you have to bear in mind that the camps were liberated 65 years >> ago. > > Personally, I think both play a role. Over my life, I've known a dozen or > two survivors of the camps, seen the tattooed serial number, heard the few > stories they were willing to tell. The odds are none of those teenagers had > ever talked to an actual survivor of the camps, or even first generation > descendants. And the events happened before their parents were born in many > cases. But it was still academic. I might be overwhelmed to actually visit > one, but it's on my list of things to do. > > On top of that, you have their age and the associated "limitations" on their > knowledge and experience. The other side of the coin is that I'd done a lot > of studying about modern warfare, known and discussed it with combatants > from both sides, but all of it academic. Standing in the glen Pickett's men > crossed at Gettysburg and standing in the US cemetery at Omaha Beach, > looking down at the beach from the bluffs, (and other places) I cried my > eyes out. It's just different when you can hear the ghosts. But you have > to listen for them. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
