2014-01 Fred Heath and Jackson

My younger brother Fred moved with his partner to North Carolina a couple of years ago. Laurel does a good job of keeping in contact. At a Heath sibling dinner at our home on January 11, 2014 we tried to call him to say hello, but his home phone is not in service and he didn't answer his cell phone. Fred suffers from emphysema resulting from years of smoking. He really enjoys Jackson, his son with Andrean, and only child.

Fred is sitting on my father's lap in this 1957 photo of our family.

2014-01 Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

I listened to the book on CD while driving in my truck. I was thoroughly disgusted with the evil that one bad man can perpetrate on the human race. His sins were scarlet, but perhaps too scarlet for forgiveness. My friend Peter's family left Germany in the post war nightmare. They were fortunate to be able to relocate to the US. When I was in junior and senior high school Peter's grandmother would speak to him in German and Peter would answer in English.