Great post. Thanks for reminding us that sometimes it takes time to clean up real messes. I suspect you could find similar pieces from Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I wonder what the news was like in Dresden and Berlin from the civilian populations after the fire bombing and the house to house fight to take Berlin. Looking at some of the ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos of Berlin and then photos of the place just 20 years later in the 60’s one wonders if they’re pics of the same place.

There’s a reason that we have ‘old sayings’ and it’s because they have a basis in truth. Thus, ‘It’s always darkest before the dawn’, while not universally true, is true often enough to have been immortalized via that statement. Considering the GWOT, it’s dark and may get darker yet but dawn is coming and will arrive if we’ll give it time.

Blue Collar Muse