Ukraine: Protesters capture 67 police in Kiev

[amandabeech]

52. My mother was a young woman during WWII.

I just got back from a very long visit with her

Several times I tried to talk to her about what it was like to be on the home front then. She talked about leaving her teaching job and going to work in a munitions factory, but she became very upset when she started talking about all the young men she knew who did not come home. Her brother was very nearly one of them. He was a radioman and tailgunner in a bomber operating out of the Phillipines that bombed Japanese positions in China. Only at the end of his life would he talk about it at all.

Unfortunately, my experience with young people is not as positive as yours. What I see are a bunch of people who really know next to nothing about history or geography who can be manipulated by just about anyone with a good story line, much like a lot of young people in the past, despite the greater availability of connections with others around the globe.

I hope that your experience is more typical than mine.