ExclusiveRemembering the Past_ Lessons from Dresden's Devastation

This very curator who showed him around remembered that he in fact was there in Dresden in 1945 during the bombing. He was just a small boy, but he remembers. Even after all these years, it's painful for those people to talk about these things. We hear the word Nazi used so much these days about things which really aren't appropriate. If someone believes in good grammar, you're a grammar Nazi. If someone wants careful stitch work on a hand-sewn garment, you're a stitch Nazi. It's quite disrespectful in fact to those who suffered at the hands of this party and the devastation of that war to use the term simply for someone who cares about accuracy. Yet if we become so repulsed by what the Nazi party represented that we refuse to even discuss it, and I don't just mean bandying about the word and applying it to current politicians, but truly studying the history, understanding what happened during that war and knowing what impact that party and its followers had on the world, we won't be able to realize what impact it had on the world and avoid the same problems today. By erasing our history or sweeping it under the rug, we forget the importance of these events, the beauty of the things which they destroyed, and the divine beauty of the forgiveness which sprung up afterward. This article talking about these churches, particularly the devastation in England, reminded me of a classic film that was made during World War II, Mrs. Miniver from 1942. Starring Greer Garson, who won Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her role, it was