Kurt Waldheim, Former U.N. Chief, Is Dead at 88

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Kurt Waldheim was also the former president of Austria whose hidden ties to Nazi organizations were exposed late in his career....

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[Klaus]

I can remember him and the Affair. But not very good. After all I was six years old when that happened. But the Photo in the news article was the first picture I ever saw from the war. Sweet dreams Kurt.

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[Jim O]

Originally Posted by Klaus

I can remember him and the Affair. But not very good. After all I was six years old when that happened.

LOL. I remember well when he was UN Secretary General (I remember his predecessor somewhat also). I guess that I am just old...

[Klaus]

Don't get yourself down, Jim. You are not "just" old. You are ancient. Naaah, just kiddin. I know what you mean. Even I can remember things (Tschernobyl, Waldheim, the fall of the Berlin wall etc.) that some younger people can't. that sometimes makes one feel a little bit old. But it is funny too. I always call people that were born 1986 "Tschernobyl-children". Of course they never know what I'm talking about.

[Jim O]

One of my earliest memories (but not my absolute earliest) is John F Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963. But as my father said many times, it's good to get old because it beats the alternative.

[Klaus]

Good point. If I don't end up with Dementia, Alzheimer and Parkinson like my grandmother I am fine with getting old.