Dear Folks, For the most part of my day I continued to edit the stories I wrote regarding my memories of WWII. For some reason or another I remembered Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the meaning it had during the war. The symphony starts out powerfully and ominously with a dit-dit-dit-DAH, dit-dit-dit-DAH. During the war years it was pointed out to us the significance of those few chords. They were the Morse Code signal for the letter "V." V for Victory. In the faint recesses of my mind I seem to recall that the Nazis in Germany hated that symphony. They knew the signifcance of it in the 1940s. They knew that it was a secret message to all our allies that no matter how the war was going at the moment, we had Beethoven (a German) behind us. Now mind you, Beethoven wrote that symphony in 1808 with no thought of WWII, but his symphony is now remembered by those of us who lived through the war and heard it frequently over the radio. It boistered our spirits. V for Victory. vee