Food for thought from one of my customers today...
I'm a supervisor at an HVAC company, so part of my job is speaking to customers who want to talk to a manager. I spoke to a gentleman this afternoon and, after I'd resolved his concern, got to chit-chatting a bit as I made some changes to his account.
This fellow was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1940, so some of his earliest memories are of running to the shelter nearest his home when the air raid sirens went off. He saw the Third Reich up close and personal, and during our discussion he mentioned the situation in the States and said it made him very uncomfortable because the parallels to the Germany of his childhood were so vivid.
He also told me about how, after the war, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium, which was paid for with funds from the Marshall Plan. All these years later, he still finds it peculiar that America would give money to Germany to take care of German children while somehow refusing to spend money to take care of its own children.
None of this will come as a surprise to anyone here, of course, but I thought I'd share nonetheless.
