A couple of weekends ago I read The Diary of Anne Frank, which I hadnt read since high school. One of the things that stuck out to me, Anne spoke of the injured and wounded German soldiers and their families and how they took pride in meeting the Furher, even though their loved ones had died or they had been maimed. She spoke of how absurd that was. What an interesting parallel to today with the U.S. Lots of interesting parallels.