From: [email protected] > >Hi Ingrid and Listers, In our homes we have one single >electric candle in each of our windows and a set of 5 candles we lights >each >week in our front window. My grandmother had one real candle in the window when I was a little girl. That was in the 1940 and 1950. The reason she had the candle in the window. That was a light for a son, who was missing in WWII to find his way home. You could walk a round town, some people even had more then one candle in the window, because they had more then one son, who was missing in WWII. This candles where all the hope the people had , that the loved one my come home. We lived near Friedland Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), where the first prisoners of war from Russia came thru. My mother helped to hand out food and drinks to the Prisoners of WWII in Friedland. Every day my grandmother would ask her if she found a person, who came maybe from the same prison camp, where her son was keep. Later she found out he died in the prison camp in Russia. Then the candle disappeared from the window seal. Katharina _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com