The Common Good  Violence from the Past  The day after we here
in the U.S. paused to remember the men and women who had died
fighting for our country, the fight continued from beyond the
grave. On Tuesday in the town of Göttingen, Germany, a World War
2 era bomb exploded killing three people and injuring six
others. The strangeness of death coming from a conflict long
resolved, the destruction of former enemies now become close
friends, gave me pause as I read the headline.  Related Reading
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Budget   My first thought in the "what a tangled web we weave"
category, was to wonder if the Allied airmen dropping those
bombs some years ago ever thought that their action had the
potential to kill their unborn grandchildren. Or that one day we
would live in a globalized world where the idea of Germany and
America being at war with one another would be utterly
preposterous. And still the violence and the hatred of a time
gone by had its latest causalities in 2