The good thing about postcards in 2021 is that you don't have to wait for them. They arrive by Whatsamathing or Instything.
F & Mr B are visiting some snow. The postcard has come from Kalavryta.
Kalavryta is a town with what they call a holocaust event in their history. On 13 December 1943, 696 men and boys were massacred.
F didn't send me any more details. She reported that they had visited a memorial museum and she found it very emotional to see a memorial wall with all their photos.
In 2021 the town is the hub of a modern ski-resort.
I think I don't mind having missed out on snow.
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteYeah, snow is very pretty to look at... not so pretty to trudge through, so your sitting with aunty P may not be such a bad thing after all. I totally understand F feeling a tad watery when observing the history - all such things affect me deeply too. Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Choked was how she described it. She and Mr B had a long conversation about 'civilians and warfare', and battlefields where blokes (mainly) waved swords and spears at each other vs war from the sky... and the process of 'demoralizing' whole populations.
DeleteI know that sometimes you need to fight for what is right. But mostly I feel war is a tragic waste of lives
ReplyDeleteThe snow is pretty. I read in the papers that your getting more snow than usual. Did you get any at home tigger?
We agree with you on war. Cats sort out their differences with a lot of noise and posturing - we rarely actually engage in fisticuffs. And when we do it is up close and personal. If you humans had to try and kill each other with your teeth and fingernails, there would be a whole lot less of it going on. No snow in Piraeus - yet.
DeleteI always find memorial walls emotional especially the ones that have voices of the survivors telling their stories. I am of Jewish ancestry so I really feel for my people.
ReplyDeleteThere were filmed recordings of some of the 13 survivors in the museum. Imagine the women of the village, who escaped the burning building they had been locked in, finding their menfolk, 12 days before Christmas, in a place that is covered in snow at that time of year, having to bury them, and try to find food and shelter for themselves and young children in their burned and pillaged village.
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