[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[David Froble]

MG wrote:
> On 9-8-2012 21:00, Paul Sture wrote:
>> FWIW when I was in Holland in 1981/2 I was often bought beers by total
>> strangers who on learning that I was English wanted to thank me for
>> rescuing them or a relative from a German PoW camp. "But I wasn't born
>> then" was met with "Well your father rescued us/them then".
> 
> How old were they, around 50~60?
> 
> 
>> It made me realise that those of us whose countries weren't occupied
>> don't fully understand what occupied countries went through.
> 
> There's a joke: After 1945, everybody was in 'the resistance'!
> 
>  - MG

Bad joke.  Everyone was trying to survive.  Some maybe resisting more than 
others, but, they should never have been in that position in the first place.  I 
got to wonder, how long before everyone learns to treat others as they would 
want to be treated.