What is the point of this excessively long and meandering article?
“What is the point of this excessively long and meandering article?”
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George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
No one forced you to continue to read it when it became too long for you.
FR, a moveable feast, has always had interesting history posts, and you always learn from history.
This particular article was of particular interest to me because I had a grandfather from southern Germany, a grandmother from what was Prussia....plus a great-great grandfather that actually fought in the Franco-Prussian war described in the article
I have a fading photo of him as an old, old man standing erectly and proudly in his saved uniform with all his medals on the jacket.
Danke schon, Pelham.
Leni