tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447020772809150478.post7400047015230595985..comments2024-03-28T22:20:36.906-04:00Comments on TempoSenzaTempo: A Memorial Day for a Distant Time and PlaceMike Brubakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13065245846262417519noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447020772809150478.post-8723809054260654422016-05-31T13:18:12.504-04:002016-05-31T13:18:12.504-04:00I have a hard time enumerating all that I liked ab...I have a hard time enumerating all that I liked about this post. Being a history junkie, the history woven into and around haunting photos was, to me, perfect. I loved the old wooden grave markers that seemed so much more personal. The story of sending a postcard of the units music makers, combined with the sombre photo of the band, tugs at one's soul. And I very much liked the reminder that Memorials are remembered on both sides of the insanity called war.Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07948553013206247354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447020772809150478.post-54569963931940748692016-05-30T10:14:36.192-04:002016-05-30T10:14:36.192-04:00Thank you, Susanna, for contributing your translat...Thank you, Susanna, for contributing your translation. I've added it and the excerpt from the 1919 casualty list to my post so that it will be better picked up on internet searches. <br /><br />Initially I was going to write only about the cemetery and grave markers of the two soldiers. When I discovered the image of the third soldier's grave marker, it was such a powerful coincidence that I had to make the story more meaningful and include the postcard of the band. The message's cursive handwriting, and in pencil, was impossible for me to decipher, but just before I was going to publish this post I realized I could read the soldier's return address and that as a member of a machine gun company in the same 265 regiment he must have known Bukowski and Doell. <br /><br />Now with your wonderful translation, we can add Binder's very personal voice to this memorial story for four young soldiers. I greatly appreciate your help, thank you. Mike Brubakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13065245846262417519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447020772809150478.post-12347310424942915492016-05-29T22:45:08.433-04:002016-05-29T22:45:08.433-04:00I read your post with interest and was very moved ...I read your post with interest and was very moved by it. And amazed by your detective work putting the photos together and and also finding the place of the cemetery.<br /><br />I would like to add the translation of the postcard along with other info. It was signed with "Georg". So, on the 4th of February 1918 rifleman Georg Binder wrote:<br /><br />Dear parents and sister.<br />I want to let you know that I am now at [...]. I am sending you this postcard showing our Regiments-Music. Otherwise I am still healthy. How are you doing back home? The best regards from the battlefield is sending you your son Georg.<br /><br />The place name which I cannot decipher is probably the same as in the middle of the blue stamp. <br /><br />Online, there are the lists of deceased, wounded, missing and imprisoned German soldiers of World War I. On February 28, 1919 the private Georg Binder, born 7. February 1896 in Schwiebus, county Züllichau was reported missing. He was at the Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 76, 2. Maschinengewehr-Kompagnie (76th Reserve Infantry Regiment, 2nd Machinegun Company). I found here that on 16. September 1918 the RIR 265 became part of the RIR 76: http://genwiki.genealogy.net/RIR265<br /><br />So Georg wrote to his family shortly before his 22nd birthday.<br /><br />http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/8321008<br /><br />Here is the transcription of the postcard:<br />"4.2.1918<br />Liebe Eltern und Schwester.<br />Kann Euch mitteilen, daß ich jetzt in [...] bin. Sende Euch eine Ansichtskarte von unserer Regts-musik. Bin sonst immer noch gesund. Wie sieht es in der Heimat aus? Die besten Grüße aus dem Felde sendet Euch Euer Sohn Georg."Susanna Rosaliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11440640988741126223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447020772809150478.post-91975678238736429362016-05-28T18:46:19.292-04:002016-05-28T18:46:19.292-04:00A very thoughtful posting. It's good to see th...A very thoughtful posting. It's good to see the lives, if only through brief photos, of those who fought on the other side of wars in which our nation engaged. The civilians sent those men off marching in their new uniforms, then other civilians were impacted as their fields turned to battle sites. They didn't speak the same languages but bled much the same. Wars are terrible.Barbara Rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447020772809150478.post-3785482681576854082016-05-28T16:04:59.436-04:002016-05-28T16:04:59.436-04:00Very sobering thoughts. When we visited the war gr...Very sobering thoughts. When we visited the war graves around Ypres we wwre shown a German cemetery in which a very large number of dead soldiers were interred in a mass grave, which seemed particularly sad. I'm always amazed at your ability to zoom in and find hidden details in your photographs!Jofeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10290597697140624780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447020772809150478.post-57633504067238750182016-05-28T13:43:09.466-04:002016-05-28T13:43:09.466-04:00All I can think of when I see lines and lines of g...All I can think of when I see lines and lines of grave markers laid out like those in the photographs is the tremendous waste and loss of young lives. The really sad part about that is humankind will never learn. Humans have warred against each other since time immemorial and given human nature, I don't believe that will ever change. I think it's a very good thing earth is nowhere near the center of our galaxy and instead, located in a far-flung spiral of it. Divinely planned with good reason? Could be! :)La Nightingailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04769079547153094005noreply@blogger.com