"Old Holst up the street was in the Wehrmacht during the war. That's how he met is wife. He was wounded on the Russian front. His wife was a nurse in Berlin."
"Jesus, was the guy a Nazi?"
"Oh, I don't think so. I've never asked."
"Do guys your age ever talk about that kind of thing."
"Not really. Those who saw combat don't talk about it."
"You ever ask the guy what it was like to live under the Nazis?"
"No, it just isn't talked about. I don't think he'd mind if I asked. But it's just not talked about. I'll tell you, though, he really loves America. I don't think I've ever met a man who loved America more. He made a good living, blowing glass of all things, in Santa Barbara."