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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Visiting German Historic Sites with Two Coptic Christians from Cairo

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The Altar at the Cathedral in Worms where Martin Luther  was tried for heresy nearly 500 years ago. When Cliff and I visited the firs...

The First Nazi Concentration Camp and the Oldest Jewish Cemetery in Europe

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The very ordinary look of mass murder. This small industrial building in  Hesse was the very first site of slaughter in the Nazi regime...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Visiting Point Alpha East-West Border Memorial in Fulda

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In October 1976, the 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, left Fort Carson, Colorado, for Wiesbaden, West Germany. Within 48 hours of land...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Cliff Has More Than 200 years of Connections to American and German Military History

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Cliff and Dmitri during our visit to Point Alpha. I wrote about Dmitri here . During the last week in June, I stayed in the Guest Hou...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

The German Military Cemetery in Normandy

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The German Military Cemetery in Normandy sits beside the highway that connects Omaha Beach with the Airborne Museum in St. Mere Eglise t...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Israel: Everyday Life with Soldiers

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Today two events convinced me that soldiers in Israel really are part of everyday life.  This afternoon I stopped at a coffee shop around...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Israeli Defense Forces: What a Democratic Army Looks Like

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The Israeli Army is what a democratic army looks like. I would have said that before setting foot in Israel, but after two train rides, t...