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the
Sound of Music was on tonight. my mother watched it every year, and
i must have absorbed a lot of it, but it's been at least 20 since i saw any
of it, and we caught just the end. i was surprised by the suspense of the
escape from Nazi Austria. she used to weep at Edelweiss, and i got
a little teary this time, understanding better what it means to lose one's
culture, one's freedom. don't ask me why. it struck a powerful chord for
my mother. she'd had to leave everything behind when she left then-Czechoslovakia
in '68 in, admittedly, less dramatic fashion than the Von Trapp family singers
& without the talent.
sarah's dad, bill, is reading about FDR's decision to utterly decimate the
Germans in WWII to force unconditional surrender so as to finally take the
fight out of them. the strategy worked, but guess where that warmaking proclivity
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