Reply #7: I imagine your mother's family must have a lot of terrible memories [View All]

[liberalpragmatist]

Granted, the generation that lived through that was is probably gone, but I'm sure that your grandparents and great-grandparents all have stories. I can't imagine what life was like for Europeans between the second and sixth decades of the 20th Century. First, so many families lost all their sons, brothers, friends to the first world war. Then twenty years later, the survivors saw THEIR children get killed in battle and their entire cities destroyed.