http://andstillipersist.com/2007/05/why-history-matters-redux/ Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:41:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://andstillipersist.com/2007/05/why-history-matters-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-94 friedaK Sun, 20 May 2007 23:49:56 +0000 http://and-still-I-persist.com/?p=229#comment-94 I was 6 years old when the war ended in Germany. Our little town was pretty close to where the Russians stopped and we were overrun with refugees. Homeless bands of people roamed the country. Lawlesness, crime, sabotage were rampant. We had nothing to eat except what we could get from the GI's when they had finished their lunch or what we found in the fields. This went on for years. Since my family were not refugees we got no help or care packages. My father was in a Russian prison camp until 1949. Until then my mother had no income. And when he came back he could not find work - too sick and there was no unemployment or other kind of welfare - after all we were not refugees. When I hear about the chaos in Iraq and how much better things were in Germany I get very angry. Americans have no idea about the chaos of war. I was 6 years old when the war ended in Germany. Our little town was pretty close to where the Russians stopped and we were overrun with refugees. Homeless bands of people roamed the country. Lawlesness, crime, sabotage were rampant. We had nothing to eat except what we could get from the GI’s when they had finished their lunch or what we found in the fields. This went on for years. Since my family were not refugees we got no help or care packages. My father was in a Russian prison camp until 1949. Until then my mother had no income. And when he came back he could not find work – too sick and there was no unemployment or other kind of welfare – after all we were not refugees.
When I hear about the chaos in Iraq and how much better things were in Germany I get very angry. Americans have no idea about the chaos of war.

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