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Message ID: 17
#17, RE: Operation Starlight Black: Part 2 of 2
Posted by BlackAeronaut on May-25-08 at 07:49 AM
In response to message #16
>Here's an interesting memory that floated up in my mind. A couple of
>years ago there was this exhibition of Soviet art in the Guggenheim
>Museum here in the city. I got a private tour with my MBA class, so
>there were 20-something of us in an empty museum, which was kind of
>cool. We got to this enormous painting of the battle of Stalingrad
>with the Russian and the German soldiers running towards each other
>bayonets first, over a barricade. And then I realized that right next
>to me was a German classmate whose grandfather was one side of this
>barricade while my grandfather was on another. Funny how this world
>works.

Tell me about it. My own grandfather was in the Pacific during WWII and now look where I am. I keep on wondering if I'm gonna wind up dating a girl whose grandfather was involved as well. I dunno if it would make for an awkward moment or not.


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