{"id":32999,"date":"2022-03-12T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T17:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32999"},"modified":"2022-03-12T12:54:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T17:54:30","slug":"der-des-der","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32999","title":{"rendered":"Der des Der"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My French is improving but I have a long ways to go before I&#8217;ll be able to tackle my newly acquired version of <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32326\">Democracy in &#8220;America&#8221; by Alexis de Tocqueville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My french penpal, told me the French had bought out all the iodine from pharmacies in France when the Ruskies bombed the protective shell of Chernobyl and the new Nuclear plant that produces 25% of the Ukraine&#8217;s energy. I appreciate her sharing her French point of view on the unfolding disaster. Iodine helps the body get rid of nuclear contaminants. She is not that far away from the crime but then again, with Putin waving his Earth destroying nuclear weapons in our faces We in the US aren&#8217;t but minutes away from it ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>She also recently wrote a long piece in response to a despairing French language post about the Ukraine which she shared with me. I had to translate it to fully understand it. Here is what my friend wrote, first in French and then in English:<\/p>\n<p><<Notre g\u00e9n\u00e9ration et celles qui nous suivent l\u2019avaient oubli\u00e9\", \u00e9crivez vous Bernard.\nJe suis Lorraine (et Mosellane) et les Lorrains et les  Alsaciens n'ont pas oubli\u00e9 ce qu'est la guerre, l'invasion brutale, la perte des \u00eatres chers et des biens et l'expulsion ordonn\u00e9e par l'ennemi pour ceux qui ne voulaient pas retomber sous le joug de l'envahisseur et accepter la nationalit\u00e9 allemande.\nPuis l'exode avec une seule valise autoris\u00e9e, vers le sud et l'ouest de la France en ayant tout laiss\u00e9 derri\u00e8re soi.\nM\u00eame si je n'ai pas v\u00e9cu la guerre de 39\/ 45, ni celle de 14\/18 mes parents et grands parents ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e0 jamais marqu\u00e9s par ces ann\u00e9es de guerre.\n\nEn 1918 ils disaient c'est la \"Der des Der\"!\nEt  la paix est revenue et l'insouciance.\nPuis la sid\u00e9ration d'une nouvelle attaque seulement un peu plus de 20 ans plus tard...\nC'est pourquoi nous avons un devoir de m\u00e9moire pour que les jeunes g\u00e9n\u00e9rations n'oublient pas, pour qu'elles sachent quels ont \u00e9t\u00e9 les sacrifices de leurs anc\u00eatres afin que nous puissions tous vivre aujourd'hui dans un pays libre, et qu'elles comprennent que rien n'est jamais acquis.>><\/p>\n<p><strong>Der des Der <\/strong> I had to look it up to learn its meaning but I suspected it had to do with Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s call in the first world war to fight a war to end all wars. Der is short for derniers&#8230;.or last or latest. As the French suffered an even more brutal invasion by the Germans twenty years after the invasion of 1914 &#8220;der des der&#8221; became an ironic term.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the Google translation into English of my friend whose family lived near the Rhine when the German&#8217;s took the northern half of Germany and controlled the south, Vichy, with French puppets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Our generation and those who follow us had forgotten it&#8221;, write Bernard.<br \/>\nI am Lorraine (and Mosellane) and Lorraine and Alsatians have not forgotten what war is, the brutal invasion, the loss of loved ones and property and the expulsion ordered by the enemy for those who did not want to fall back under the yoke of the invader and accept German nationality.<br \/>\nThen the exodus with only one authorized suitcase, to the south and west of France, having left everything behind.<br \/>\nEven if I did not experience the war of 39\/45, nor that of 14\/18, my parents and grandparents were forever marked by these years of war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1918 they said it was the &#8220;Der des Der&#8221;!<br \/>\nAnd peace returned and carelessness.<br \/>\nThen the amazement of a new attack only a little more than 20 years later&#8230;<br \/>\nThis is why we have a duty to remember so that the younger generations do not forget, so that they know what were the sacrifices of their ancestors so that we can all live today in a free country, and that they understand that nothing is ever certain.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My French is improving but I have a long ways to go before I&#8217;ll be able to tackle my newly acquired version of Democracy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,85,147],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33002,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32999\/revisions\/33002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}