REPATRIATION

[CINDERS]

I concur with you Gil perhaps 75 years ago we should have let the Germans sort them.

I stood on the monument of BB-39 at Pearl in 1989 and can attest it is a very eerie, solemn and moving experience walking over her hulk to be faced with that marble wall so full of those poor souls who never had a chance a most horrid way to go.
My friend and I were on a self guide that day and apart from a few US citizens the rest were from lets just say not European decent which I found at that time rather bizarre that they would scurry around taking happy snaps of each other and I just wondered if they really knew or even cared about the significance of that memorial they were walking on.
I spent a fair while looking at the wall and then looking into the water at her dim shape and said a quite prayer I am not overly religious but I felt it was the right thing to do......
(Was turned off it by the exceedingly harsh way the Nuns treated us boarders)