Gray day today in Amsterdam. Heavy rain and thunders. Not very inspiring to go outside and do anything, which i didn’t.

Saw last night Saving Private Ryan . Very impressive movie, esp. because I went to Normandy a few weeks ago. There I was confronted with the past of 50 years ago. Today it is difficult to ‘feel’ what happened then there. A lot of pain and tragedy is no longer there, of course you read stories, dairies and  letters send home. But in this movie, you get an idea what really happened there. It was not only glory, there were so many soldiers hurt, with a reason and many without any reason.