by Unsigned70 » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:07 pm
<br>I was living in Bitburg at the time, it was an event I will never forget. I thought this might be relevant to some of the posts/discussions I have seen here at RI...<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id342.htm" target="top">The Eighties Club</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>"<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The Washington Post (23 April 1985): President Reagan cannot go to Bitburg. It is out of the question for the leader of the Western world to lay a wreath in a war cemetery where Nazi storm troopers are buried. . . . The stated purpose, reconciliation, is being drowned in a rising flood of long-buried passions from the death camp survivors, who feel as betrayed and abandoned as they did 40 years ago.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->"<br><br> <p></p><i></i>