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Entry: A visit to Dachau - A601372
Author: Bob Dodd - U180609


Long-forgotten (?) and very poignant.
I very nearly re-posted this to PR, but it doesn't need that sort of critique, does it?
It needs a hush, and humility.

Has this been featured anywhere yet? If not it needs to be. I'm left speechless after reading it. Too bad PR rejected way back when, it's exactly what the EG needs. Not that it would have a snowballs chance now, but it would be nice to see it go in. Well, that's what us UGlies are around for. Lacking that, there's <./>thepost</.> or <./>agggag</.>.

giving the new name a shot...<./>underguide</.>

I think a big push could get it into the EG I believe, but it's not worth it, eh?

A very effective piece. Pin and Sneaky said it.

I visited the Dachau camp on a February day in 1975.

Miserable.
Grim.
Haunted.

Took the better part of a bottle of Jack to wash the stain off my brain.

It's "Arbeit Macht Frei", BTW.

The details are well presented. Good work.

As this one is on the front page today, should it still be here in the AWW?

Sure As a compromise with some other AWW groups, the UG doesn't move entries from the AWW unless the author wants to.

(by the way, I wonder what happened to the acceptance post I shall have to have words with my co-eds...)

> As a compromise with some other AWW groups, the UG doesn't move entries
> from the AWW unless the author wants to.

I can see that making sense, but for this one (and for so many other AWW entries, it seems), the author doesn't appear to have been around in some years.

I don't get the same urge to make things neat and tidy in the AWW as I do in PR, though -- just saw this on the front page today and thought I'd ask.

Hey, the treaty leaving UG entries in the AWW ended a war, Mikey
This bit doesn't have much to do with the author when he's an elvis. It's about appeasing certain people

Minesweeping no longer on the agenda, then, Jodan?
Though this particular piece is among the best examples of why we should just leave things as they come to be.
Lest we forget.

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Which reminds me. Any of you want to throw together a CAC Continuum any time soon?

This weekend hopefully,

Waz