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To: Mr. Silverback
We can't afford to just sing louder while the train goes by.

for lurkers and posters who don't know what this refers to --
(at least this is how I've heard it)...suppossedly an elderly German
recalled that during WWII, transport trains would stop for a while in his town.
The church he attended was near to the station, the trains, of course, were headed to
the death camps.
Some Sundays, the lamentations from the train were loud enough to disturb the
atmosphere of the sanctuary of the church...
so the congregation simply sang louder to drown out the crys of the condemned
and to remove the shame of their inaction from their minds and discussion.

At least this is what I heard on the "Haven" Christian music/commentary show.
76 posted on 10/03/2003 6:55:58 AM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA
Dead on, VOA. cpforlife was kind enough to post the whole story (with appropriate graphics) in post 29. Definitely worth the read.
88 posted on 10/03/2003 11:16:32 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Free Republic--Heartland Values, Think Tank Intellect.)
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