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Posted by Rick Bennett on May 24, 2001 at 03:06:25

In Reply to: Re: Thanks.... posted by Dmitry on May 23, 2001 at 22:31:48:

...the people in this forum can discuss issues infinitely weightier than 'tubes versus solid state' or 'DSD versus PCM' with seemingly infinitely more civility than the folks in those other discussions? It's a paradox. I need to spend more time here than in those other places. BTW, Victor, I traded a few messages with you last year when several of us were questioning BAT's decision to "wait and see" regarding hi res digital. Though I've since sampled both new formats (and don't regret it) I'm not quite so ignorant as I was then and now understand your position much more clearly. I buy many more $1 LP's and $7 CD's than $20 SACD's or DVD-A's!

On a personal note related to the discussion above, though the name I carry with me is 'Bennett,' the other ones on both sides of my family are 'Huber,' 'Strassel,' and 'Vogel.' ("Bennett" was originally "Bernhardt.") Even though all of them came here around the turn of the century (...the previous one - weird that we now have to use that qualifier), as a German American one can not help but feel somehow related to what happened over there. Not responsible but still somehow related. I once read an interview with Boris Becker (an aside - he was given the name 'Boris' because his father thought it might be helpful for him 'when the Soviets invaded West Germany,' how times have changed...) in which he stated roughly the same thing. A pall of guilt still hangs over Germans who were born two generations after the Holocaust.

One thing should also be remembered besides what has been pointed out by Victor and Dmitry. Many German Americans provided heroic service during the war, including my father and my uncle. My uncle Leo Bross, a gentler soul you've never met, worked his entire life in a greenhouse. At the age of 36, after just having married and with a child on the way, he enlisted. He went in with the first wave on Omaha Beach. He received a battlefield promotion for bravery under fire, served till the end of the war and went back to growing flowers for the rest of his life. My father was a meteorologist who never saw battlefield action, but he did what he could. I'm sure neither of their stories were unique among German Americans. If their parents had never emigrated to this country, perhaps they would have been among those 'who didn't notice.' And maybe my name would be 'Vladimir'....

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