![]() The other man - on my mother’s side - saw his best friend drown when his destroyer was cut in two in the Mediterranean. One grandfather was forced to crash-land his plane in Cornwall, with bad results for himself and his crew. ![]() ![]() In both of their cases, the experience was pretty awful. They both fought the Germans, you see, and I don’t think they would much mind me mentioning it now. The sky is blue and the foliage of the oaks so lush that the shade is almost black and in an ecstasy of enthusiasm for the amazing city of Berlin I raise my glass, again, and think of my grandfathers. How do you do? al4a.cpm I see Germans frolicking in the delicious fresh water of the Wannsee, and Germans having meticulously organised picnics on the largest inland beach in Europe German girls smoking roll-ups and handing round punnets of strawberries, and ancient German men, nut-brown, doing creaking callisthenics in the sun.
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