Dunno, was just cogitating... which is never good...

I hate Sundays....

And a memory popped back, a sad one. It's about the post on Rudolf Brazda post below.

It was in the early 70's, I was in the Munich train station and sort of crowded, but they had a nice custom. If there was a table for four and one person sat there, you could go over and ask, 'Excuse me, is this seat taken?' And they would invariably say, 'Of course, sit.' So I had an hour, got a mug of beer. And we chatted a bit, and he was really down.

He was 'old' to me, grey-haired, and looked morose. We chatted a little, and then I saw it... the inside of his left forearm. A tatoo.

And my heart sank.

And I said, 'Excuse me, but is THAT what I THINK it is???'

He said, 'Yes, Buchenwald.' It was his tatooed concentration camp number, hey...

'Are you going home?'

'No, I just come here.'

'WHY???' ( I was 26 and naive....)

'I hate being alone.'

He told me a little bit about his experience, and it was horrible, was young and more than impressionable....

And it was awful. And I was speechless. Of course I knew generally but hearing it from a real person was pretty devastating.

I just listened.

So seemingly, he just went up to the train station café and find someone to talk to and tell his story. It was horrible and frightening, but he never got past it.

And I asked the stupidest question of my LIFE... 'Once you got freed, how could you STAY here, why didn't you get OUT?' (I'd have high-tailed it out of there, but he had roots.)

The answer was crushing. 'I had nowhere to GO...'

He was German born, generations in the country, they wiped his family out, but he still felt Germany was his 'homeland'. And so crushed, and decimated... he couldn't move one way or the other, but just feel sad and reach out to strangers in transit in a train station.

And that is what fascist regimes do in the end.

Ok, am connecting dots. Big industrialists, like Bush's grandfather and others supported the Nazis financially, that is no secret and open. And others. And the Krupps (steel industry) were way in with 'Adi' and his gang, but too stupid to see where it would lead, G0ebbels was a genius at communication, and this idjit.... from Alaska, I think, (or Tennessee) wants to put poor people into camps to be 're-instructed'????

WHY do alarm bells go off in my head?

It'll probably be the end of the world, who knows.... But if those tools get in, oh man are you all in for a big ride to nowhere.

And there will be lots of people crushed and sitting around train station cafés or the Greyhound bus ones, destroyed.... And not Starbucks.