I liked this reply! There seems to be a tendency when people talk about "past lives" for them to imagine somebody far less mundane than their present circumstances, despite the odds.
It's been said you can best judge a society by how it treats it's most vulnerable but I think you can also judge them by their statues as that shows what or who they value.
We apparently admire collapsed buildings and long-dead generals the most, at least locally.
Apropos of nothing that I could find, the waterfront in Jersey City is graced by this beauty, commemorating the Katyn Massacre of Polish soldiers by Stalin in 1940.
It's been said you can best judge a society by how it treats it's most vulnerable but I think you can also judge them by their statues as that shows what or who they value.
We apparently admire collapsed buildings and long-dead generals the most, at least locally.
Apropos of nothing that I could find, the waterfront in Jersey City is graced by this beauty, commemorating the Katyn Massacre of Polish soldiers by Stalin in 1940.
"This is a memorial, located in Jersey City, New Jersey, commemorating the Katyn massacre of 1940- Eleanor Lang is the photographer- 2013-11-11 14-15" by User:BklynEl - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:This_is_a_memorial,_located_in_Jersey_City,_New_Jersey,_commemorating_the_Katyn_massacre_of_1940-_Eleanor_Lang_is_the_photographer-_2013-11-11_14-15.jpg#/media/File:This_is_a_memorial,_located_in_Jersey_City,_New_Jersey,_commemorating_the_Katyn_massacre_of_1940-_Eleanor_Lang_is_the_photographer-_2013-11-11_14-15.jpg
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