Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gary, Thanks for mentioning this. It brings memories for me as well; in August 1968 I was a second-grader in Wroclaw in south-western Poland. In September or October some of the Polish troops who had participated in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and crushed the Prague Spring came back to Poland through our town, and we school- children were equipped with little Polish flags and commandeered out on one of the main streets to cheer on our returning heroes who had been resisting imperialist aggression in Czechoslovakia... Amazingly, I knew better, as I used to spend the evenings with my parents listening to Radio Free Europe. And three years later, we emigrated to Denmark, partly prompted by the events of 1968, and I was born again in freedom. Nathan Gary Todoroff wrote: > SNIP > Be sure to take some time, Bruce, in and > around the university buildings, and say a little prayer at the memorial > there to the brave, freedom-loving students who died during the Prague > Spring ( http://www.centraleurope.com/ceo/special/spring68/galuska.html ) of > 1968, when I was also a young student not too far away at the University of > Tuebingen in Germany. - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator/index.html Belgium photo page: http://member.xoom.com/wajsman/index.htm Motorcycle page: http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/1704/index.html