Ave atque vale

[selenak]

Helmut Schmidt has died, and jo_lasalle wrote a fantastic post saying very much what I feel, which you can read here. That sense of public duty, yes.

It wasn't unexpected at all, but it's the type of death that makes you feel a big part of your life has just become history.

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[wee_warrior]

I'm just a little too young to have an impression of his impact as chancellor, so I'm having no emotional reaction to this, as opposed to nearly everyone else. It's very odd, to have an intellectual understanding of a great loss, without feeling it.