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01/11/20 06:28 PM #2764    

 

Jeanne Zinser (Gottschalk)

Nancy, perhaps an extension of "If you see something, say something." Instead, if you see something, DO something. It really doesn't matter how much. Just SOMETHING! 


01/20/20 08:33 PM #2765    

 

Jim Cejka


01/23/20 07:11 AM #2766    

 

William Nelson

Living in Louisiana far longer than we lived in Wisconsin, we root for the Saints. However, we don't forget our roots and still hope the Packers win every game, except when they play the Saints. We actually thought the Saints would be eliminated by the 49ers, but they were taken out one level too soon. 

At least LSU gave us something to cheer about this year. Don't expect that to happen two years in a row with Joe Burrow moving on to the NFL.  He'll be a tough act to follow. When our middle son went to LSU, he was able to attend most of their home games. They were good, but not that good, and it wasn't unusual to see them defeated. Most seasons, they've done well enough to think they could win every game, except Alabama. This year, that win alone was satisfying. the rest just added to the excitement.

 

 


01/23/20 10:49 AM #2767    

 

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

Thanks a bunch for the before and after, Garry. It was a sad day in the Michigan woods for ex-pat Cheeseheads.😭

 

 


01/27/20 10:38 AM #2768    

 

Jeanne Zinser (Gottschalk)

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. What follows is from my travel diary of 28 years ago, detailing a day that is seared into my memory.

 

A VISIT TO AUSCHWITZ   JUNE 30, 1992

 

On this 15th day of our Eastern European trip, we proceeded to a destination that would not provide an enjoyable visit, but one that is most necessary and almost beyond description  - Auschwitz. We’ve had a lifetime of information, literature, pictures, movies, TV productions, etc. about this infamous horrible place. We knew the details of the heinous deeds of the Nazis, but I don’t think that we were prepared for the enormity of Auschwitz. We’ve been to Dachau, which was painful enough. But Auschwitz makes the visitor endure a different kind of pain. It shocks each person into the reality of the unfathomable numbers of people who were totally obliterated. Graphic pictures of piled-up, emaciated bodies being bull-dozed into mass graves really don’t have the same effect as seeing the mountains of shoes, toothbrushes, hairbrushes and combs, shaving brushes, eyeglasses, suitcases, clothing, crutches, braces, wooden legs, and the TONS of hair! These are the things that remind us that these people LIVED, that they were more than just tattooed numbers, more than a horde of bodies crammed into cell blocks, more than just the flesh and bones incinerated in the ovens. And as one moves from exhibit to exhibit, there are faces everywhere - pictures of the victims in life, staring at all of us in uncountable numbers - a constant, haunting reminder that once they WERE here before they were so quickly erased from existence.

 

Traveling on to Auschwitz II-Birkenau, we encountered a different experience. Here, one IS consumed with the idea of DEATH. Perhaps this is caused by the virtual lack of tourists and the natural state in which all is allowed to remain. Over acres and acres stand abandoned wooden barracks, inhabited now only by bugs, birds, weeds, and ghosts. It takes little imagination to stand at those railroad tracks, which we’ve seen in too many horrific pictures and films, and almost HEAR the collective moan of suffering and inevitable extermination. The gas barracks and crematoria lay at the far end of these tracks of doom. The hot afternoon sun deterred us from venturing there - our choice NOT to go when million of others had no choice. A difficult day ended with our reinforced and renewed vow to NEVER FORGET.


01/28/20 06:33 AM #2769    

 

William Nelson

Thanks, Jeanne, for the heart-wrenching, but informative message you've posted. We'll probably never get there personally, but your first hand report makes all the old B&W films  we've seen over the years even more real. We often wonder if we've actually learned from the past and if this portion of the past will ever be repeated. We hope not, but we still see evidence of hate toward innocent people, only guilty of being different from us.


01/28/20 06:23 PM #2770    

 

Jim Cejka

When I was a deputy with the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department, we had a reputation of not tolerating any nonsense. If WSD showed up, you were most likely to go to jail or get a ticket. 

I'm glad to see that they still maintain that standard - 


01/28/20 11:43 PM #2771    

 

Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra)

Jeanne, thanks for your account of your visit to the scene of the worst crime against humanity in history, and the sadness of the tremendous loss to the world of all those lives. If it teaches us nothing else, it teaches us to not be taken in by attempts to demonize any entire group of people. Every time you hear that, resolve to do something to positively uplift that group, one person at a time. If everyone did that, Auschwitz couldn't happen again. Never forget!

 

 


01/31/20 03:12 AM #2772    

 

William Nelson

Jim,

One of our granddaughters is a dispatcher for Waukesha 911. She knows the officer who made the stop and is on the picture. Our late grandson-in-law was once her immediate superior. They've been giving her a hard time, even on Facebook, and our granddaughter is trying to get a weiner whistle for her to replace her traffic whistle.


01/31/20 11:14 AM #2773    

 

Jim Cejka

Bill, they're available on Amazon for (wow) $16.00.

I wish I could find mine. When I was in the Navy, a couple of us WI guys had them and would blow them to make fun of the boatswain's mates and their whistles.


02/01/20 04:04 PM #2774    

 

William Nelson

Thanks for the info, Jim. I'll pass it along to our granddaughter and let her decide. Knowing her, she's already found a friend of a friend who'll know someone with a way to get one. 


02/03/20 12:30 PM #2775    

 

Garry Sellers

Super Bowl Half-time show

I wonder if it was just the people at the Super Bowl party I was at but the universal feeling about the half-time show was that it was totally inappropriate for a family program ... which the Super Bowl should be.  Pole dancing, crotch grabbing (which was bad enough when some brainless guy tried to shock the audience but women?), twerking, and lap dancing is not something I want to share with my granddaughters in the room.  I just don't get how they think it helps women to be viewed equally and not as sex objects.  It was 100% sex.  What role model were they trying to project?  Do you suppose it deterred or increased the probability that some male idiot will make unwanted advances on a woman?  The women on the Today Show were thrilled with it and kidding about the high energy and shaking their "heinnies" knowing that wasn't the word they wanted to use.  I don't get it. 

And why do I sense no sympathy for the 49ers coming out of Wisconsin?


02/03/20 07:31 PM #2776    

 

Jim Cejka

A couple of weeks ago we were talking about the Super Bowl and, for a joke, I looked up the prices for tickets. And, it was a joke. The Uecker seats started at around $4500 and the good seats in the $18K-$19K range. I couldn't find any prices for the boxes, which I 'm sure were even more interesting.

For years I've always wondered why they had the half-time shows that they have. At those prices, you would expect that the people that could afford them would be a different audience than the young, deaf, people that the current shows seem to target, highlight wardrobe malfunctions not withstanding. 

Fortunately, there were other things to watch than the half-time show - and the game for that matter.

Oh, and 0 sympathy from South Carolina too. 


02/04/20 07:34 PM #2777    

 

Jim Cejka

Follow-up:

In the Packers' Insider column on Packers.com, readers yesterday also questioned the Super Bowl half-time show. The Packer news guy answering said he thought the show was terrific. 

In my humble opinion, the half-ttimes by the Custer High School band were better, in spite of the often freezing weather.


02/05/20 12:16 PM #2778    

 

Barbara Blair (Brenzel)

Thank you Garry.  I'm so sick of being called an old prude!  


02/08/20 08:04 AM #2779    

 

Eileen Eigenfeld (Miller)

As I was scrolling through the 55th Reunion photos, I see that no one seems to recognize me. That's me in photos 18 & 19 (joined by my husband, Lance Miller (class of 59).

 

 


02/17/20 07:30 PM #2780    

 

Jim Cejka

From the quote from Confucius, I take it he never heard of garage sales. 


02/28/20 05:31 PM #2781    

 

Garry Sellers

Jim - Confusius is being quarentined as we speak!  I wonder if he has any Sheepshead witticisms.  We're playing tonight.  Even got Gordy Sauer to fly in from Phoenix.  He likes to come in to replenish his bank account at Californians expense. He's bringing full sterile gowns and a 5 gallon bucket of hand sanitzer.  He just likes taking his clothes off in public and soaking himself down.  He doesn't know that's acceptable behavior in California.


02/28/20 07:19 PM #2782    

 

Jim Cejka

Garry, do you guys have masks that allow for the intake of sheepshead related beverages?


03/10/20 12:03 PM #2783    

 

Jim Cejka

I heard, or read (?) something yesterday that was encouraging. Apparently Antiques Roadshow now considers antiques to be over 100 years old, instead of the prior 50. I gues that means if we show up, we're guests, not the focus of the show. 


03/10/20 12:24 PM #2784    

 

Melody Jones (Parker)

Oh boy, we are now declared an emergency state.  NC has 7 virus cases.  No school closures, though, because our govenor says school kids at lowest risks.  Won't keep me from going to church on Sunday!smiley


03/10/20 01:03 PM #2785    

 

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

So, Melody, your kids are still in school. Great, the little stinkers can all pass around the virus and bring it home to their grandparents. Brilliant. 

Up here in Michigan we reportedly don't have any cases. Don't know if that means we don't have any, or we have no kits to test for them, or they all froze to death. Karsten and I have been home for eight days from a two week cruise and are still upright and mobile. Yay!  Now in the middle of cancelling next week's trip to Boulder. Think we'll stay home and binge-watch old West Wing episodes for a while.

 

 

 

 


03/10/20 03:31 PM #2786    

 

Jim Cejka

Melody - 7 must be the critical level. Here in SC we have only 6, so I'll still sleep well tonight.


03/12/20 12:35 AM #2787    

 

Melody Jones (Parker)

Nancy- only one kid at home still in school, an 18 year old grandson.  Also have a 19 year old granddughter who works in retail handling the worse filthy thing in public...MONEY!

Jim- NC now has 8 cases here and one case of a NC resident who is outside of NC but just also tested positive; will be quarentined in place.

The state universites are closed for the remainder of the semester.  Students have to leave their dormitories and finish their classes online.  They have one week to vacate in Durham and Raleigh.  We have no cases in the Charlotte area, yet. But I am sure it is just a matter of time. I am high risk not only for my age but for my respiratory and immunity problems.


03/12/20 01:01 PM #2788    

 

Garry Sellers

Hey Mel - I understand why you're not going to give up church but please avoid the handshakes, hugs and kisses among "old" friends.  And make sure that hand sanitizer is in your purse. You're in that "high risk" group with your lung problems.  We don't want to lose you over this stinkin' gift from China.  And while you're there, how about saying a little prayer for the GS's ... Gordy and Garry.  He's a sinner and needs lots of help.  I'm sweet and innocent but just like insurance policies!  I'm thinking Jim may need a little support as well unless he's mended his ways ... which is doubtful.


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