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RE: The Spark + Unbewusstes - Finish The Story Contest - Week #66 @bananafish
Another keeper of a reply - so many things to respond to!
I love it that you see good in Germans as well as Russians, and traits they share.
And your poor father! How could one man suffer so much bad luck - or as he saw it, not getting killed was good luck, even it meant more time in POW camp.
Oh, the lack of men! I first read of it here at Steemit: little girls growing up without fathers and grandfathers. The men died in the war. It took a generation or two for children to have fathers on the scene once more....
So much sadness!
And yet there is still goodness, and you seem to know how to find it.
Yeah. He lived a long life though. Died in 2012 at the age of 90. But yeah, his best years he spent in pow camps. Compared to him, I was very lucky.
And true. So many children grew up without fathers. That's a shame. Hopefully, this will never happen again.
He lived to age 90 - that's something!
Fatherless children - in some parts of America, it's all too common, but not due to casualties of war.
"Lucky" is a state of mind, according to the mystics. Have you seen @owasco's posts about visiting two prisoners who light up their dreary world with optimism, hope, and good cheer? Look for the blue flower to find those posts...
No. I was kind of busy writing a story draft for a writer's club. Can you drop me a link, please?
Links to the first posts are in the most recent post.
https://steemit.com/powerhousecreatives/@owasco/freedom-and-honor
Or, look for the periwinkle blossom:
Thanks! What was Abu in for?
I have no idea what crimes they were charged with - @owasco hasn't spelled that out. Being convicted of a crime doesn't prove that one committed the crime. So I don't know. But I do know the two prisoners are writing, painting, and spreading hope.
Absolutely true. Still, I was curious why did he get a life sentence. One of my favorite movies is Shawshank redemption were a person was convicted for the crime he didn't commit.
Great movie! (Never mind the mouse, the Frenchman electrocuted, and the innocent man excecuted for the little girl murdered). Twenty years, almost, for the guy in this movie to tunnel his way out...