Some Remarks of a new Subscriber.

[Paul Mackin]

Michel--yes a beautiful day. Incidently I didn't mean the _Catch-22_ 
quote as a refutation to anything you said. Thought it might be an
interesting addition to the planned Antwerp website you were envisioning. 
Also for what it's worth the hypothetical 17-year-old (assume it's
hypothetical of else I'm not necessarily the oldest person on the
p-list) is the same age I was when liberation occurred. June 6 '44 was my
last day of high school. Small world.

				P.


 On Sat, 27 May 2000, Michel Ryckx wrote:

> Paul:
> 
> Ending a war.  You're about 17 and you see the Canadians, the Polish army and,
> finally, the Americans enter a city.  The Wehrmacht has retreated -you saw them
>  going home on a stolen bike- and you have your first beer.  You don't have to
> be at home tonight -and you won't be.  Isn't that freedom?  At that moment, nob
> ody knows about Flying bombs.  Bastogne has yet to come.  You don't know where
> Auschwitz is.  Besides: no school tomorrow.
> 
> And the sun was shining.  Sure, you would feel: war is over.
> 
> Michel.
>