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7. We still feel the echoes of pain from WWII

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 04:46 AM

Sep 2018

Thanks for sharing your story. I have no idea if the world is capable of such resistance today. And hope we never have to find out.

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RIP Freddie Oversteegen trusty elf Sep 2018 #1

He must have been a brave German, what courage appalachiablue Sep 2018 #2

A life well lived. RIP secondwind Sep 2018 #3

I had a friend with a story like hers. DFW Sep 2018 #4

We still feel the echoes of pain from WWII bucolic_frolic Sep 2018 #7

I think there could be those capable of such resistance today. Behind the Aegis Sep 2018 #8

I think no one knows what they are capable of DFW Sep 2018 #11

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Thanks for impt. info. on Truus, Hannie & the Jewish children. appalachiablue Sep 2018 #14

'The Girl with the Red Hair' (1981) movie about Hannie Schaft. appalachiablue Sep 2018 #17

Thanks for posting Sherman A1 Sep 2018 #6

Great courage such as theirs should be honored and celebrated. oasis Sep 2018 #9

Brave soul, RIP. riversedge Sep 2018 #10

The sisters PERSISTED. True resistance. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2018 #12

Remarkable story about an amazing woman FakeNoose Sep 2018 #13

Heroes we don't know about riverbendviewgal Sep 2018 #15

She wouldn't say "good people on both sides " SCantiGOP Sep 2018 #16

A genuinely admirable woman. RIP. (nt) Paladin Sep 2018 #18