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🇨🇦Mary Ann Allin 🌻💙💛's avatar

My parents lived on the German border in the South of Holland during WW 2 and the Germans stole their farm their produce and my mother's family was evacuated to live in a chicken coop.

I remember the stories they told us. I have visited Holland and seen the bunkers that still remain, and the monuments. My husband has visited Auschwitz and Birkenau and war was still so apparent even when he was there 10 years ago. I worry now, living close to the American border, here in Canada, that today with the implementation of the US tariffs, what's stopping Trump from starting a war! Heck, he ha no qualms about stopping help to Ukraine, so now evil Russia can go back at it!!

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Launa's avatar

Thank you for writing about this. I’m in the tiny town of Castel d’aiano in the Apennines. Just this morning I gazed a long time at the war memorial in the center square, which is dedicated “to the martyrs who resisted fascism.” I used to think that war, those dictators, were horrific enough to happen once only. I’m not so sure anymore.

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