The video about Anne Frank was over— part of a special exhibit at Bosque Redondo Memorial in Fort Sumner, New Mexico—when my son told me, “Those Nazis were really mean.” I agreed. “Are they going to come to New Mexico?” “No,” I told him. “But the next time you talk to Grandpa, you thank him because he joined the Navy when he was young to help stop those Nazis.” Jack, then five, promptly asked, “Then why wasn’t Grandpa in that movie, Daddy?” Jack is often my traveling


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