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To: koan who wrote (65754)	11/27/2009 10:28:01 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

The French and German writers are interesting counterpoints to each other My mother's father's family came over fairly early but they spoke both French and English until my mother's generation, and his journals he kept while in WWI he wrote in French. but thinking of the Germans... it is hard to imagine that things can not change in the middle east or in Afghanistan & Pakistan if they did in Germany. The theologian I mentioned who I am now reading is interesting in that he was sent to war for Germany at 18. He surrendored to the first Brit he came across and spent 3 years as a POW. Some time after the war he toured a concentration camp in Poland and his talk of it is aching. he has such a way of talking of how Germany is shaped by that war and what they did and how much of his theology is born of it. The Japanese were rather brutal as well but now are... is the word... pacified? many things are possible. you sound a lil like a liberal Hawk at times. ready to go off and save the world. :)