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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do miss the old currencies. They were neat. Still remember paying 1500 lira for a can of coke in Italy.

Suspect EU will fall apart before it grows closer. A lot of their voters are really unhappy with the status quo and the inability of the EU to address their concerns [b]beyond trying to make political parties illegal[/b]. It's not a small minority but a substantial one. Re the French poster above, there's a lot of deep unhappiness in France....[/quote]

French PP here. Are you referring to the German AFD, and neo-Nazi parties in general? Sorry, you're out of line. We're doing our best not to fall into fascism again. You've never lived it. My grandparents and older aunts and uncles lived through WWII. Don't talk about what you don't know.

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I’m always fascinated by people who lived through the war.  My great grandparents did but I didn’t know them.  How old are you that you had aunts and uncles alive at that time?

Also it’s pretty great to see someone in France so invested in an American parenting website mostly geared towards those living in DC.  It provides an interesting prospective.  Can you tell us about the difference in expectations between French and American grandparents?

Sorry to hijack the thread,  OP.  The French are just so endlessly interesting to me.  [/quote]

This site was started in 2002…well it was a list serve first. I was 29 at the time, 53 now, and my mother and her parents and siblings all
lived thru WW2 (in England). I don’t think it’s very unusual for many of us on DCUM to have family members who lived thru WW2. My mother and her one surviving sibliNG are 82 and 83 yrs old so, old, but not exactly ancient by today’s standards[/quote]

Your mother and her siblings did not live through Nazism because they were born in 1942-43.  The war ended in 1945.  You also state they lived in the UK, a country never conquered by Hitler.  [/quote]

NP. My parents were young kids during WWII. They didn't remember much, but I knew my grandparents well and they were adults during the Depression and WWII.[/quote]

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