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Originally posted by sarettah@Aug 27 2004, 06:53 PM
It has been my experience that people who have actually experienced the "horrors" of war do not like to talk about it much.
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My granddad and grandmother were in the resistance in Europe during WW2 - my granddad was captured, and send to a nazi "work camp"... he died less than 1 year after the war due to illness, however my grandmother never told much about what she and my granddad had experienced during WW2 - just hints, small comments every few years/decades... which could be anything from harmless daily life stories to graphic comments which left you with a changed picture of your "cookie baking grandmother", like when she told about how their group in a period did brutal assassinations on possible snitches to scare off potential new snitches
I´m sure she has not told everything to spare us from the experience and feelings she must be carrying around - like she told me once "it was another time, and the world must move on"...