This evening is so sad as I listen and watch what's happening to our fave city, Paris..The whole scene on T.V. is so horrific, apparently the latest news saying over 100 people have been killed in attacks around the city...I've tried to contact my cousin Hannelore to see if she is o.k. and just where she has been today...but she may be away...in any case this shocks the world..and everyone is saying why...who is responsible, so far ISIS has been blamed. We'll see, apparently the attackers have all been killed by the Paris Police...
I have seen some violence in Paris, but not like this, most of our time there has been so idyllic ...Mac just loved our time there, and I can remember how we walked the streets without any problem, and at night it was spectacular..We were there a few times and the last time we drove out of Paris and all around the coast where we saw Arromanch (sic) where we were reminded of the invasion, along the Normandy coast we saw the graves of soldiers from WW2..We even walked the beach of Dieppe and stayed in a B &B there. It was kind of funny we had 4 beds in our room, we only used one..what a laugh we had...the lady who ran the place, just loved Mac and saved a special breakfast just for him, as we had slept in..but she had it almost ready and when we came downstairs it was "votre dejuner et pret...monsieur Yeux Bleu"....I felt like saying hey what about me..but thought, oh well let her spoil him. No wonder he loved Paris and France, the French women are bold and flirty...
the violence I saw was between a man and his girl (seems he was a pimp or so the police said) it..was too awful, but in any case this is far far worse. That time I was with my mom. Mac was at home minding the family for me...anyway, Must get back to the t.v. now and check things out.
How terrible, one remembers France, especially listening to Remembrance Day stories, of WW2 just yesterday. In fact when we were in France we saw bullet holes in various places and these were from WW2..but going even further back in time, we saw how the people in France rose up against the elite and the royalty at that time, so much so that even today some of the statues of the Virgin Mary, Queen of the World (religious symbols) had the head chopped off..No majesty or symbols for the Revolutionaries of that time...
Well the news is back on, so I'll go and watch, how I miss Mac all the time especially times like this we were, or he was, such a news hound and always wanted to hear the latest, he would watch the news religiously as well as read the latest news in the papers. The New York Times being his favourite...
Mac, always said Wow, when we would land in Paris, or get off the ship crossing over from England...and I would just stand there and take deep breaths just loving the scene..and now ...we'll see g'nite.
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