[svandamme]

just back from my hometown , little wake for my grandfather
his younger brother was there, we talked, he always was a great story teller, asked him about how they came back as kids, born in exile (parents fled from WW1)...he told how they basically lived in barracks and shelters, and the landscape was quite barren , it was still almost a moon landscape in certain areas ( i know what he means , Hill 60 was left just as it was , a memorial, it is crater after crater after crater )
he said that folks couldn't make a living , except for one thing, recycling shrapnell, copper from shells, and even high explosives... all in all a dangerous way to make a living...

gotta do more of this , he likes to tell these stories, and i like to hear em... it's worth it, might ask him if he minds getting them recorded, and get the stuff in the museum of my hometown..