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Jim Beaux wrote:Around the time of WWI, my grandmother, a Polish Jew, was living above a tavern with her mother, sisters and brother. Their father had left for the U.S. in order to earn enough money for the rest of the family to follow.

One night her mother was boiling a chicken for dinner when the tavern keeper snuck upstairs and warned that there were drunken German soldiers downstairs making plans to come up with intent to rape and kill. My g grandmother bundled up the children, (my grandmother couldnt have been over the age of 5) grabbed the half cooked chicken and, with the Germans shooting at them, fled to a nearby river and hid. After things seemed to settle down the family began to eat the chicken; but the chicken needed salt. So my g grandmother snuck back to the tavern to get the salt!

The notion of risking life for something as outrageous as salt speaks volumes about how these people had become acclimated to the risks of death.

My grandmother to the day she died remembered that terrifying, cold, dark night, hearing the bullets whizzing by & then eating half raw chicken on the river bank.

The immediate family made it to the U.S. and all led successful lives, but the fate of many of the extended family remain a mystery. When I watch documentaries of the holocaust and see the mass of humanity being led to the ovens I focus on the individuals and wonder if that person was one of my family.

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Jumping Frog wrote:You need to adjust the tightness on your tinfoil hat.

Is there a tool for that? If not there appears to be a great market for one out there, what with all the tightening/loosening required based upon "reliable sources" of information. Of course it would have to be a "tactical" model, preferably in camo, and sold only on interweb sites to the "right people." Hmmmm

But they'll have to accept bitcoins, because otherwise the purchases will be traceable and the information will go into a secret database and they'll be at the top of "the list".