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...October 1939 in the city of Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia. Weeks later he was conscripted, becoming a tank engineer on the Russian front. Gunhild was born the next year, and on hearing of the birth of his son in April 1944, he wrote to his wife: "I am glad for you that this time it's a boy. In the autumn, I am coming home." Fritz Schröder never came home, and never met his newborn son. On Oct. 4, 1944, two months after Romania declared war on Germany, he was killed, reportedly by a Katyusha rocket, while fighting...
...doing her thing seriously. Then you have someone like Laura Bush, who is much more in the mold of her mother-in-law. Supportive, with a sense of humor seemingly. I don't know her well, but she seems the right wife for her husband, and I'm glad that she was there on 9/11. And Rosalynn Carter. I knew them, but I was still young. Obviously, she's extremely bright. I keep thinking, What would Rosalynn have done had she been Elizabeth, you know, with a law degree and literature degree? She might not have been that different...
...York City cops and abusive relationships, and I was amazed at the depth of experience around me. Mike summed it up. “I avoided jury duty so many times I got a noncompliance,” he said. “But I’m glad I did this. I learned a lot from you guys.” I wanted to cheer, cry, shake everyone’s hands. Go, Justice, Go! I thought...
...PandaMonium I was glad to learn that there are more giant pandas in the wild than previously thought [June 21]. But I was disappointed by the lead sentence in your item, which noted, "China's environmental policies are rarely worth celebrating." China has signed a number of international animal-protection treaties, and more environmental-protection laws are being created in that country. Although it is true that China has pollution problems, it is unfair to denigrate the nation's environmental policies with such blanket criticism. Frank Yuan Swansea, England...
...vision and naivet?," she says. As she smiles, her cheeks, smoothed and buffed to an eerie luster, become even more impossibly taut. "That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything, perhaps. So I'm glad I was not smart...