Friday, July 10, 2009

Lovely

In a speech last year in Berlin, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner paid tribute to the war children, the first time a French government had officially done so, calling them “the offspring of damned women and fathers whose memory has been assassinated.” Sixty years after the fact, he said, “they ask for their misery, their lives, their identity to be recognized.”
-From NY TIMES

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