“There are wounds that never show on the body that

are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

– Laurell K. Hamilton, American fantasy and romance writer

“Gisela, come back here!” yelled the teacher. “Please come back here right now!”

“No,” Gisela cried and bolted for the door. “I must go home – I can’t stay here!”

The date was July 1943. The place was Hamburg, Germany. The event was a horrific bombing campaign carried out by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces entitled Operation Gomorrah. Gisela was only in grade school at the time but remembered that morning when the air raid sirens screamed to life. Teachers rapidly ushered frightened students out of clas...

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