Hi Jeremy!
Sorry not to be able to meet you - just too far away and there are sports matters of my kids with priority.
Would be very nice meeting you for a chat. Myself, I was born in USA but otherwise more German than anything else, but shifting towards Finnish nationality. I have never been proud of any national citizenship so far, but being US-citizen is something I would nowadays have to reject. I am of course still worried about fate of all native Americans, being north or south of continent, but there is nobody to blame today for past centuries.
As far as US are concerned in ww2 it is already a little more complicated. Every time I bump into Texans who regard me as German, they tell me to shut up, they or their dads have saved me from commie-slavery and I should just be grateful, but refrain from thinking different to themselves. My strong opinion is, that US (inter alia!) have failed during ww2, because at latest in 1941 everybody could now about sheduled holocaust - including pope - but nobody stopped nazis from doing so. But later US found it perfectly appropriate to mess around with governments of all kinds everywhere in the world. Bill Clinton gave a good amount of confidence back to the world, that even a single strong country need not be a threat to the rest of the world - an opinion quickliy revoked by gwb.
Just in case you should be travelling also to the north of Germany, pls give me a shout!
And enjoy your stay at Neckarsulm anyway!
Andreas
