It was bound to happen.
I got a phone call from a very nice elderly woman yesterday. She wanted to complain about something in the newspaper.
“I just don’t understand all this fuss about Japan,” she informed me in about as courteous a voice as you can imagine.
“Don’t you remember what they did to us in World War II?”
I tried to explain to her why she was wrong. Every point I made she said she agreed with, then added another caution. Clearly, this was a person who had lived through that horror and was permanently scarred by it.
It brings to mind something I seem to do here all the time.
Some days you just sort of sit here and shake your head.
I got a phone call from a very nice elderly woman yesterday. She wanted to complain about something in the newspaper.
“I just don’t understand all this fuss about Japan,” she informed me in about as courteous a voice as you can imagine.
“Don’t you remember what they did to us in World War II?”
I tried to explain to her why she was wrong. Every point I made she said she agreed with, then added another caution. Clearly, this was a person who had lived through that horror and was permanently scarred by it.
It brings to mind something I seem to do here all the time.
Some days you just sort of sit here and shake your head.
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