SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Grainne who wrote (19429)3/29/1998 1:35:00 AM
From: Intrepid1  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Furious is hardly the word Christine....It goes much much deeper.

purething



To: Grainne who wrote (19429)3/29/1998 9:27:00 PM
From: hal jordan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Thanks for the welcome Christine. However, I have no intention of cluttering up your thread with the battle Father Terrence and I waged against Emile over a year ago. Wasted breath on a mind that cannot comprehend.

My dad is living proof that the human spirit can endure and survive under the harshest conditions. Call it a testament to human fortitude, I call it heroism and bravery. He did many things that were punishable by immediate execution if caught, including stealing bread from a Nazi SS commandants kitchen to give to starving children, pulling other prisoners to safety out of marked "death" lines and on and on. I rarely heard these "hero" stories from him. Rather, I heard them years ago from other prisoners who survived. Imagine how big a child of 80 pounds is. That is how much my father weighed after the Allies freed his concentration camp. He was 20 years old. The stories I could tell about his experiences are almost beyond human comprehension. I think humans have physical limitations that may be reached, but the spirit and determination to survive and help others to do so in life and death situations transcend and overcome what otherwise may not be possible.

Please forgive me for barging in on your thread in such an abrupt manner. It is not my normal tendency.

Hal