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At Fish’s funeral, Taps was followed by another military tradition – the 21 gun salute. Each firing of a gun was like the pounding of a hammer on a nail that attached a poster inscribed with the word HATE on it into my heart. However, each precious moment I spent with the real Russian people, living and wanting to enjoy their lives as well, working hard and dreaming of a better life, loving and caring for me, a nail was loosened and discarded till finally they were all gone and my hatred with them. Abe Lincoln was right when he said, “Am I not destroying my enemies, when I make them my friends?”

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     Not six months after I became free of my hatred for those lovely people, they too became free, when the Berlin walls in Germany came down and communism began to crumble and fade away as well.