[Rick Lee]

I make it a point of asking very direct quesitons when I meet folks I know have lived through a lot. They won't be around forever and I don't meet such people every day.

About 15 yrs. ago I was in a pub in Weimar, Germany and sat next to a WWI (yes, the first one) vet. Had a chat with him. I also knew a German who was shot in Stalingrad and flown out on the very last plane before the Russkies had them surrounded. I've met plenty of people who've met Hitler. I've had lunch with some ladies in Warsaw who watched the Warsaw Ghetto uprising get crushed from their own windows. I know plenty of Germans who spent years in Siberian gulags after WWII and I've even met a few Long March vets in China.