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'mM jaiLadaaLauaid aCSw OPINION The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday December 28 1997 AA7 Memories From World War II About Foreseeing the Future BY FRANK KAPLAN BOULDER Colo While my mother sister and I settled in the living room where the Christmas tree still stood in all its finery my father began the d ritualistic process With white candles aglitter in their tin trays clasped to the ends of the trees branches we watched his every move because the final step the pouring determined what adventures or tragedies our family would encounter in the coming year At least thats what children were told by their elders In preparation he brought in a large tin tub half filled with cold water and placed it close to one wall of the room Positioning the tub was important because the walls white surface played a vital part in the procedures final phase Once he had the tub in place he dropped several large lead pellets on the flat surface of a small coal shovel Carrying the hand shovel into the kitchen he placed it on top of glowing coals inside the cook stove Although our house was wired and we enjoyed electricity my grandmother continued using a woodcoal stove to do her daily cooking Waiting for the lead to melt seemed interminable to my sister My fam- ilys tradition of pouring lead on New Years Eve still lingers like a muted refrain among my child- long-awaite- hood memories of winters past After the dinner table had been cleared and nights darkness replaced the early evening dusk our family would gather in the living room and there anticipate discovering what lay ahead for us in the new year The ritual took on greater meaning in the winter of 1944 The fighting of World War II continued to batter most of Europe where we then lived and at times a nagging uncertainty about the future enveloped our household like a midnight mist Any glimmer of relief even if projected through homespun supersti- tious acts like lead-pourin- g brought hope I dont recall ever being told how the tradition started or which of my ancestors had bequeathed it to my family I merely assumed my father had always performed the ritual as other fathers had and would again that wintry night in our small town near Prague Aint for Most Guys Bald a mans sex drive Big deal if your head is shedding hair the way its been shedding hair and your scalp looks like a chicken your libido level is pretty much irrelevant Your sex drive not to put too fine a point on it is rolling down a oneway street Youre all sexed up with nowhere to go Youre And theres one other thing Once you start taking Propecia you have to keep taking Propecia one pill per day every day for the rest of your life or all the new hair falls out But what if you run out of pills? 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Worth it guys are thinking Definitely worth it RICK HOROWITZ Nadia and me We wanted our father to bring the silvery liquefied we watched our father walk slowly into the room carefully holding y- coal shovel in his hands We saw him crouch beside the tub and in lead from the kitchen immediatel- To keep ourselves occupied while waiting we carefully halved walnuts then dug out and ate the crunchy white meat inside Each of us chose the largest walnuts so the empty halves could support the nub of a small candle which we fastened inside of our specially selected half shell We argued about which halved globe would and which wouldnt work but finally lit the candles in our newly created vessels and launched them in the bathroom sink filled almost to the brim If a craft hugged the sinks wall its maker would be safe during the year ahead But if the shell glided into the middle it was a sign of drifting aimlessly and helplessly off course Nadia and I played the game until told the lead had liquefied and was ready As we rushed back d into the living room and sat a few paces from the tub cross-legge- self-estee- Aihutmtueiu Ivy? L Hi mu Stout CiiuU cloth-wrappe- handle of the d one fluid motion pour the molten lead into the water The popping and hissing sounds of the solidifying lead transfixed us until the tiny cloud of steam lifted and we could peer inside What shape had the lead formed? Did it bond into a single mass? Or had it shattered into small bits? Haltingly father reached his hand in the water and extracted a single flat piece of solid lead that had formed on the tubs bottom He held it up several inches from the wall where its extended shadow appeared cast by the light of a nearby lamp As I looked at the shadowy form any impression of the dark image on the wall escaped me But as I continued staring intently my child's imagination and the power of suggestion overcame me II 4401 X ATX 12 Megs SDRam Mothertoard 43 Gig Lira DMA Hard Drive 4 Meg AGP RAMBUS DRAM Video 24X 16 Bit Sound Card 56K (X2 or Fax Modem 17" 28 Nl Flat Screen Color Monitor World War II He unites regularly about European affairs East-Centr- TOUCHED? 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A few In a small percentage of cases the researchers say Propecia lowers the And as my father haltingly began to verbalize his thoughts about what the shadow seemed to represent I started seeing shapes and figures which remain clearly in my mind He slowly moved the lead piece closer to the wall and then back again and the shadowy mass transformed before me into three mounted horsemen the last and middle horses noses connected to the tails of the ones In front riding hard across a steppe A slight smile touched my fathers face and pointing to the wide fur hats and curved swords raised high on the wall he told us that what the leads shadow foretold was that Cossacks from the East would arrive soon and liberate us from the Nazis who occupied our country As the passing days turned into weeks and the daily routine resumed after the holidays New Years Eve and Cossacks on horseback faded from my mind They were suppressed by dozens of other childhood concerns until four months later when in early May 1945 Germany surrendered and World War II ended in Europe Within days of the war's end units of the Red Army began arriving in our town many in horse-draw- n wagons As I spied the Soviet soldiers settling in and watched some of them tending the horses the memory of New Years Eve and the shadowy image of horsemen on our living-roowall resurfaced in my consciousness CosMy father's predicted sacks from the East had come and helped liberate us from our occupiers after all Altec Lansing Speaker Special ACS31X Speaker Svstrrn With SuLwoor Volunteers 18 years and older experiencing symptoms of facial pain nasal discharge and tenderness over the sinuses are invited to participate in an investigational drug study For further information regarding this investigational drug study please call: Microsoft Office97 Professional Wmdows95 Rel B OCR Windows95 105 Keyboard 3 Button Standard Mouse 80 Watt Amplified Speakers 2 Year Limited Parts and Labor Warranty 532-452- 6 8:00 am - 500 pm Monday through Friday Intermountain Clinical Research 150 S 1000 ESLCUT 84102 (COMPUTERS Utah's Largest Computer Retail Chain! 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