About George Thompson
Location: Missouri
Occupation: Writer
Bio: Bio I was born in the small town of Ironton, Missouri in the mid-40s. My father was a minister and my mother was the devoted pastor’s wife. We moved when I was three to Kansas City where Dad pastored several churches, then moved to Fulton in 1960 where I graduated from Fulton High School in 1962. Dad was pastor at the Southside Baptist Church from 1960 through 1967. It was during those teenage years that I started writing poetry, articles, short stories and novels. Many poems were of a “grim” nature because I was usually either frustrated or felt depressed when I wrote them. Further in-depth study of myself helped me to see matters in a different, more enlightened way and gave me a much greater peace Bio of mind. That feeling came about when I realized that a Higher Power held control over my life and although I felt free here on earth to explore many things because God gave me the mind to make my own decisions based on the “terms” I had set for myself it was I who set the terms and levels of frustration and worry. Once I turned everything over to God, my writings became more positive and that feeling of emptiness I once had was lifted. My faith in God and the good intentions of mankind grows daily. I believe in the power of words, whether they are written, spoken or through the motions and spelling in sign language. They can be used to empower or defeat, accept or deny. My poetry is just one of many means of communicating. Retired now, I make my home in Ironton once again after being gone for sixty years. I write a poem every day, an article or two a week and have a continuing column at wickedwordsmith.com on the Web. My pleasures are writing, feeding birds and taking care of my new cat, Mandi.
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Not just any war story.
I was never really one for war movies but Dresden has so many twists and turns that I was hooked from the beginning. The ambiguous “they” say that Dresden was once one of the most beautiful cities in Germany. It was also the target of a controversial attack in the closing days of World War II.
Dresden is a story of love found, love lost, and love gained once again. The fiery ruins of the city act as a backdrop. Anna (Felicitas Woll) works as a nurse at the hospital and unsuspectedly finds Robert (John Light) wounded and living in the basement. She tells him that he will have to leave; he offers no response. Later he makes his way to a hospital bed on the first floor where he embarrasses Anna. He refuses to respond to questions because he knows once he speaks everyone will be able tell he speaks German with a British accent.
The Germans think he is a spy. That includes Anna until he tells her he is a British aviator who crashed in the countryside. By then they are in love with each other. Anna is engaged to another man. Anna and Robert plot to run away together but are caught. Anna is seized by her father who plans to take her by train somewhere safe while Robert is drugged with morphine and left prostrate on the floor. Then the fire bombing starts and mayhem breaks loose at the train station and in the tunnels.
The DVD extras include a making-of featurette and archival military footage of the Dresden bombings.
Although Dresden was subtitled, it was still easy to keep up with the action. There were several places where there was dialogue and no translation; the picture spoke for itself. As I said, I’m not a big fan of war movies, yet this one was different. Perhaps it was seeing a foreign film about war for the first time or maybe I just enjoyed a plain love story told with war as the background. I don’t know. I “do” know that I will watch it many more times before I’m ready to finally put it away and say “enough!”
