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linklings, Rorschach edition

Started by Steve @ bripblap · 10 months ago

I neglected my blog reading this week, so it’s a more-sparse-than-usual roundup.Â I was busy at work, hurriedly assembling memos and spreadsheets for urgent meetings which resulted in the formation of committees to consider creating memos about spreadsheets tracking meetings&% ... Continue reading »

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Big Winner
10 months ago

Watchmen was awesome, along with V for Vendetta and Frank Miller's Batman The Dark Knight Returns. I read those three graphic novels a couple of years ago and they were all top notch.

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Ruth
10 months ago

My father was part of Patton's Third Army that liberated Buchenwald. All his life, he talked about the Depression, about working for the CCC, then about joining the U.S. Army in 1939, and all the ensuing experiences of WWWII, and some of them were horrendous experiences (he was a machine gunner). But aside from telling me that he was there, at Buchenwald, he wouldn't talk about it. The only thing I ever remember was once he smelled something (don't remember what), and got inexplicably ill. I was just a child, and when I asked why the smell had affected him so violently, he just replied that it smelled like Buchenwald. But he refused to talk about it, saying that some things were too terrible to put into words. I can't imagine what those men must have seen, heard, smelled, felt, much less what it was like for the prisoners of Buchenwald. So yes, losing money or even your home is bad, but sometimes we need to be reminded of our perspective.

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Steve @ bripblap
10 months ago

@Ruth: People like your father were amazing - the men who bore those burdens of memory and experience and still carried on were incredible. As I said, remembering what men like him faced makes the things we face seem trivial.

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