Reading a phenomenal book, titled Every Man Dies Alone. It\u2019s historical fiction about the German (internal) resistance to the Nazis during world war 2. Apparently the author survived those times \u2013 wrote the book in a frantic 25 days \u2013 and then killed himself. It has a feeling of truth to it that transcends the translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this point, he doesn\u2019t dare to think any further. He\u2019s afraid, really afraid, of where a thought like that, taken to its conclusion, might lead. He would have to change his whole life!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve also taken up a bit of a family chore \u2013 I retrieved two crates of letters from the house in Detroit. They contain years of correspondence between my grandparents \u2013 starting with when my grandfather was in boot camp \u2013 proceeding through officer candidate school \u2013 and on to his deployment in Hiroshima after the end of the war. I\u2019m trying to read them in order, and also to scan them. I\u2019ve got this crazy idea to make a bit of an electronic museum out of the high points. Not sure if it will go anywhere, but there it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The thing about these letters is that they\u2019re so *ordinary*. My grandparents were, at one level, at least, two people who loved each other very much \u2013 whose days started with waking up and ended with going to sleep again. Along the way, they wrote to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other than that, I\u2019m in a hotel in some town or other. Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reading a phenomenal book, titled Every Man Dies Alone. It\u2019s historical fiction about the German (internal) resistance to the Nazis during world war 2. Apparently the author survived those times \u2013 wrote the book in a frantic 25 days \u2013 and then killed himself. It…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}