The Slave Ship

[Eva Elisabeth]

In Japan they also will never acknowledge they don't know when you ask them the way. They will always send you in some direction, even if they have no idea. It's considered impolite not to help.

Eva,Thanks for being so forthright about your history.

Herb - that's just the way it was (and it was uttermost evil).

As for wars - the time that has passed since WWII has for long been the longest period of peace (almost 70 years now) in German history.

The second longest peaceful period before (63 years) lasted from the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 to 1618, when the Thirty Years' War began.

Former chancellor Willy Brandt (who was a Lincoln expert and main speaker at the 1959 sesquicentennial banquet of the A. Lincoln Society in Springfield) pledged that "a war must never again begin from German soil " - and I hope so it will be.