Keith A of Hertford: "There must be a misunderstanding Jack.
Ake clearly did not mean that most of the demographic were infected in one year."

'Misunderstandings'??....in other words 'spin' to alter the topic, to steer it to their 'talking points', more than something that really is.

For what it's worth.....I met one of the most sweetest ladies that I've ever met, her name was Dina. I met her in the late 70's. She was quite a bit older than me at the time...and while talking to her, at the table, I noticed that her forearm had a row of tattooed numbers on it. She had in fact been in a German concentration camp, during WWII. She opened up to me, and in the course of the conversation, related to me, that she was there from the ages of 14 through 19. Her whole family was there with her. She relayed how most of her family died there, and watching their corpses being dragged off, and thrown in a pile of other bodies, to be burned up...and in her graciousness, without bitterness, even though she did fight back a few tears, she relayed that the greatest loss, was not for her country, Germany..but to all the families like hers, and her friend's families that had been torn apart during that time...and the devastation that resulted to her homeland on such a widespread level. She relayed to me about the displacement of so many friend's families, who had been scattered, never to see each other again....and 'unless you've experienced that', she said, 'you'll never know just how sacred, and how dear, the time we were together was. All I have now, is their memories, and our love has sustained me all these years. Of all the things that happened to our homeland, this was the most tragic. I cannot continue to mourn...the best I can do, is honor them by living, and being the best that I was raised to be, and bring love and peace to those, who just don't know'.

I've never forgotten her, or her words.

YES! The lasting fabric of the nuclear family, so taken for granted...

GfS