her family had a farm where, where the plane went down. So she told horic, Marion Horik that the plane had been hit and was being chased by four German planes. She believed the pilot could have parachuted to safety, but stayed with the plane to keep it from crashing into the farmhouse. When he did jump, it was too late, and he was found dead in hung up in a tree. The Germans took all of his identification and left his body at the entrance to the cemetery. Villagers buried him. They would sneak out at night to put flowers on the grave and skipping ahead. So originally, she was told that he was missing in action, then that he was presumed dead in 1946 she authorized the reburial of his body in France, but the US government never told her how he died. Maybe they didn't know, or they whatever doesn't really matter. So the young widow went on with her life, and four years after her husband's death, she married Frank horrick. They have four children and six grandchildren, and I am one of those grandchildren I remember, you know, growing up and being a grandma's house and seeing this photo of this guy in a pilot's outfit. And you know, who is this guy? And I think my mom explained to me, I didn't, didn't know, but so this young history buff in France, Stephen David tavid, heard about the plane crash as a child in 1995 he started trying to identify the pilot. Didn't, you know. And his quote is, of course, I have not know this painful period, but as a young French boy, the memory is very important to me. David then, 23 same age that I was on road to horc on December 12, your husband was my age when he died. I don't forget it. So in recent years, I think we hear, you know, from from political spectrum the extremes. We have people on both sides, you know, oh my gosh, if my candidate doesn't win, then we're gonna turn into Nazi Germany. This is gonna be horrible, but I'm going to pretty confidently say it, no, it's not gonna turn into Nazi Germany, because Nazi Germany was Nazi Germany. This is the US right now, 2024 and as we go back and forth and say, Oh, was this, you know, gosh, Nazi Germany's history and their rise of power and all that, that was, gosh. That was just horrible, one of the most horrible things of human existence. And, yeah, most definitely. But if we look at it in different perspective without Hitler, the I, as I am here now on this path, might not be here. Errol, as we know her, might not be here, and Philip Kapleau wouldn't have gone to the Nuremberg trials as a court reporter and the Kyoto trials and wandered into a Japanese temple where he was on his path to this practice. So, yeah. We all might not be here right now, but of course, we can't, we can't say this might not happen, because that's the Dharma. Things are as they are right now, right here, and it's how we choose to focus our attention and and what, what matters to us, trusting our our gut, we have to, we have to go in and not be afraid to do that, that dirty work, and have a little bit of an ego bruising here and there, and get rid of some figure out why, you know, why do I have these ideas that I, that I do. I, you know, I've had in my whole life about these people or those people, the others in, I mean, even within our Zen Sangha here or a far was reminded of conversation I had with one of the Mexican Sangha after sesshin. And, you know, we're just talking about whatever, where we travel, and that sort of thing. And I, you know, say, Okay, we went to China in 2010 and they said, Oh, I heard, I heard the Chinese people are really dirty. Is that true? You know, part of me thinks that if that comment would have come up here, there would have been, I don't know, bit of a bit of an argument that's, you know, there's nothing like traveling. I just, oh my gosh. I, you know, we used to travel quite a bit as much as we could, before the before, times before the pandemic, and then we didn't get a chance to dhara's Dad health and all that. So oh my gosh. It was just, it just really was lovely. Just everybody in Mexico was just lovely. Everybody that we met came across just great, great experience. So yeah, we have to be, you know, we have to be willing to get out of our comfort zone at first, you know, going down, I have limited, limited Spanish. And of course, when I'm trying to talk with whatever, somebody in public asking them for directions of this or that, you know, kind of self conscious. Oh, am I gonna say it? Right? Am I gonna and then, you know, finally, like, all right, just gotta break down, try it, stumble, trip ourselves up using Google Translate on our phone whenever we can, and just the crazy things that it comes up with. And, you know, all of a sudden we have this, this great conversation. We're just laughing because it's just absurd. What what Google is saying, and we mine things and, you know, and then we say gracias Adios, and then go on to the next, next, next thing. So, yeah. I mean, we hear a lot. I've been guilty of it myself thinking it over the past several years when, especially when you know my brain is not working the way I wish you know it's like, oh my gosh. These are just not normal times. This is not normal. Why? Why? Why? Why am I here right now? Oh, my God, climate, hatred, war, violence, it's perfectly normal. Everything that led up to this point happened. We can't go back and change it. At least as far as I know, maybe in whatever quantum theory can't go back and change it. So what do we got? We can try to look to the future. And that's, you know, yeah, that's, there's a there's again, there's a evolutionary survival mechanism. We as humans, as we grew, we became more creative. We can think of this and that me and them and how you know, what do I want, and we can create great art. We can create food and whatever this shelter. And it can be as difficult as can be to believe, as is often said in as far as I know, most Buddhist traditions, least Zen, I've heard it many times that there are no accidents, just circumstances that we might not prefer at any given time. Prefer and air quotes, I guess. But Zen practice can help us, you know, reduce and maybe even, ideally, cease that suffering. But you know, it's not gonna, it's not gonna get rid of the causes of it. It's not gonna get rid of the circumstances that led up to this point. And it's, you know, constantly, when we're constantly dwelling in the past or fear in the future, we're not. Miss, you know this right here, the people around us right now, you know there's, there's no there's no war, as far as we know right now, there's no war. Oh yeah, we suck. We've seen photos, we've seen news. We've, yeah, there's, there's stuff going on right here. Right now, I'm sitting around a bunch of lovely people working on themselves and doing their best to be present.