Nuroma

I was young when he died. I have learned about him through my mother who has explained everything she could about him. How much she suffered, how my father and her were near to go to prison. How their language was denied for them in school. I am certainly puzzled, as you say, when people feel nostalgic about this man!

Posted by: naraida | 23/11/2005

I feel the same that you explain in this post. Fortunately, when I was born, the dictador was dead already and the democracy was just begining.
I try to undestand the feelings of the nostalgics, but it's difficult to think like them, at least for me.

Posted by: MOONLIGHT | 23/11/2005

I only remember that we had day off at the school, I was children, 6 years old, only, but I remember very well when my father was watching the funeral, and they was put the big marble cover over Franco, my father said “Eso, eso ponerla bien grande no se vaya a escapar”, Put it very big, that he don’t escape, it was the first time that I heard something bad about Franco, my two grandfathers fought with Franco in civil war, and I didn’t understand nothing, Was Franco a bad person?, I was very innocent….. After this day I remember a lot big discussions between my father and my uncle, (his brother) two different concepts of live, my father in Barcelona and SEAT worker, my uncle in Madrid and army official, (my grandfather did something very clever, to study, and to help his sons to study, for this reason in a small village of Leon mountains, only my father and my uncle had studies; but in those days my grandfather only had money for a big studies for his first-born, nothing for his daughter and technical studies for the smaller, my father… I don’t want to criticize this option, maybe it was his unique option), for this reason my grandfather did the white and red, two persons with two life concepts completely different. Nowadays I have cousins that they still idolatrous Franco. For my is incredible, but when you speak with them, trying to understand, you can see, that they are not very different to us, they have the same problems, the same worries, but they have acquired this ideology from children and for them it’s very difficult broken with his family ideas, for them ROJOS are bad people, because his father was a good person….it’s difficult, it’s difficult to broken with Civil War consequences, I think that we will need more time, more calm, better politicians and better journalist, and bit by bit, we will forget. Nationalist extreme (Spanish, Catalan, Vasco or Gallego, anyway) will do to grow the radical ideas that to ignite the civil war, the best in my opinion is to pass, and to take calm, and to change all bit by bit. Has anybody been asked as he would be if he had been born in other family?

Posted by: Concept | 23/11/2005

Nuroma,
I am an active comment writer and of course, I usually get into the people's BLOG who write comments to me. I want to tell you that I am not writing comments because you once claimed them. I am just writing them and by the way, I think you are always very brave with what you say because it comes from your heart and I find you really honest.

Posted by: naraida | 27/11/2005

Thanks for your comment on my "Thanksgiving post"! Where have you been living, Nuroma? Tell us about your experience one day!
It is true that when you live in other countries there is so much to learn that you become a richer soul!
I miss my people so much, specially when it comes to these dates and I also miss the spectacular changing of the seasons they have.

Posted by: Virginia | 28/11/2005

Thanks for reading my post the next friday at English school.I'm being impacient...

Posted by: MOONLIGHT | 14/12/2005