There is something special about spending time with an older person

Today Vee and I took a dear friend out for lunch to celebrate her 85th birthday.

Hana Ludikar has led a remarkable life, largely as a result of having a father who was a Czechoslovak politician who had to flee the Nazis in 1939 and the Communists in 1948. She showed us a fascinating film about her father and his family made by one of her nephews which was shown on Czech television in 2009.

You can read the story of Dr. Ladislav Feierabend (1891-1969) here.

Most of us take our freedoms for granted. We have not had to fight for them and we have not experienced losing them. But the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.


 




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