This tome was weghty in its verbage!
ya,the book was wordy,It confirmed what I already thought,that the anti-semetic mindset of the German people of that time only needed a little fuel, to let it be full blow aggression.
It’s weird to think on these things. I am only the 3rd generation born here in the USA and I am Proud to be an American.
But I can not forget that I had relatives that had other views during this volitale time in the worlds history.that is what prompted me to read the book.My Great Grandfather became a US citizen in 1936 and I am glad that he did. I am thankful for the open mindedness of my upbringing.the freedom to think for myself.
the ability to oppose what is against my own convictions.The ablity to voice what I think is wrong and the freedom to change it.

It was hard for me to read because During WW II I had relatives in #3 different Armies. German,Italian, American.
A cousin was a prisoner of war of the Russians and didn't return home until 1947. I had 3 great uncles in the European theatre of action  for the Americans, one in the Pacific With a engineering unit for the american army.one grandfather in the navy and another grandfather in the African/Italian Theatre.

I love red Toenails

Mr Kaplan has a book worth reading,
it reads like a travelog yet is infused with history,politics and humanity.
The information rounded out the things I already knew about the region and then took it one step further… there is a national mindset in that region that I was not quite ready for,
yet somehow already knew on one level what it was like.
I still don’t understand the hatered that seems to infuse the nations towards its peoples but at least now I have a better grasp of what happened in the past and will better understand any thing new that might develop.wellworth the time spent reading.

I just love getting happy mail!
57 sent and 53 received,5 traveling one expired.

the title is DOG , Right? so why was so much of it about the human? I wanted more about the DOG! I’m glad it was short because I lost intrest at the end.

Dunning did it again a very well told story.Parts of it read like a Dick Francis novel/Horse “stuff” but that was ok because I like his stories as quick reads.

home town boys! Good enough to open for Sir Paul.

becareful what you wish for,lua loved books and he loved the seamstress, he wanted to make her cosomopolitian in thinking and thats just what happened. it was a well told story.

this book confirmed for me that the Jewish women had a double burden during the Holocaust..Jewishness first and women as the mothers of the future generation of jews.the stories had much more depth than the accounts i have read by men.much more personal and heart wrenching. I wept as i read some of the stories.
it’ gave a further reading list in the back as well as the authors of the stories that were told.
I will remember this book for sometime!

Interstate travel sucks!
two lane black to driving is so much more interesting.
I saw llamas,goats,mules,horses, fields with so many new baby calfs i couldn’t count them all laying in the sun ,little black dots on the emerald green pasture, a herd of black sheep,a mailbox made from an old 250 horse evinrude boat motor,a brightly painted Houseboat in a field being used as a primary residence.Amish farmers with teams of 6 horses plowing, the dogwood trees are just starting to bloom.
as i was thinking how green everything was i topped a hill and the most awesome sight struck me,PURPLE! Purple, not lavender, not light purple, but the neon brightness that only nature can produce,feilds and fields of purple! tears came unbidden to my eyes. the weather was perfect.84 and sunny in April!. I had Tool on the Cd and it was wonderful.
do the blacktops,Turn it up to 11 And Drive!