Word: wreathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After all the anger stirred by the cemetery plans, both Reagan and Kohl were determined to keep the wreath laying there as low-key as possible. They succeeded. Air Force One carried the two leaders into a U.S. air base on the outskirts of Bitburg, a pleasant town in the Eifel hills where 11,000 Americans live in friendship with a roughly equal number of Germans. A motorcade took them through open country, then into a residential area and to the small cemetery. There the flat markers, arranged in 32 rows, had been polished for the visit, and flowers were...
...moving conclusion to the day's events, representatives of both sides laid another wreath at the Torgau cemetery against a polished gravestone on which clasped hands are chiseled. Buried there is Joseph Polowsky, a Chicago taxi driver and former 69th Division rifleman who was a member of the Kotzebue patrol. When he died two years ago of cancer, his wish to be buried beside the Elbe was granted by East German authorities...
Republicans swatted their House leader Robert Michel for being defeatist on contra aid. Reagan bashed Congress for "surrendering" to Communists. USIA Director Charles Wick, a close Reagan friend, zapped his old buddy for wanting to lay a wreath at the Bitburg cemetery. Jewish groups continued to denounce his German itinerary. Reagan has been a great booster of the military, but that did not stop the American Legion from getting in some licks about Bitburg...
Americans seem helpless to prevent their President from laying a wreath, this Sunday, upon the graves of Nazi SS soldiers. They can, however, bear witness to history by standing with the victims of the SS Wherever the Nazis ruled in Europe, they decreed that all Jewish people wear a yellow armband or Star of David upon their clothing Intended as a mark of shame, it was transformed into a symbol of courage and solidarity by the Gentiles who wore it also We be have an appropriate form of commemoration for all the victims, and repudiation of Mr. Reagan...
Said Rosensalt, "While he refuses to go to pay homage to the victims of the Holocaust on the site of a Nazi concentration camp, he now intends to go to a German military cemetery and lay a wreath on a grave of German soldiers who wore a swastika on their uniform and who died preventine Allied forces from liberating the death camps...