6 | June• 2019
Letters
READERS’ COMMENTS AND OPINIONSLET US KNOWIf you are moved – or provoked – by any item in the
magazine, share your thoughts. See page 5 for how to join the discussion.Brotherly Love
The article ‘My Greatest Olympic
Prize’ (Lessons of Friendship, May)
reminds me of my brother Bruno, an
Austrian who was forcibly enlisted
as a parachutist by the SS at age 17.
He was as handsome as Luz Long,
the 1936 German sportsman from
your story. However, my brother
was at the front in Russia and Italy
which ruined his morale for the rest
of his life. Traumatised, sick with
nerves, he started a family that he
couldn’t care for. Reading your story
about Luz Long, I almost cried. What
happened to the German athlete?
WALTER BUCHBERGEREditor’s Note: Luz Long died in 1943
while fighting for Germany in World
War II. According to a 2009 report by
National Public Radio in the US, a
final letter he wrote to his friend Jesse
Owens reads, in part, "Someday find
my son ... tell him about how things
can be between men on this Earth."Hug it Out
Thank you for the beautiful pictorial
‘Come, Give Me a Hug’ (April 2019).
I a m an animal lover and these images
touched my heart. My four-year-old
granddaughter loves them, too.
I b abysit her regularly and since
I s howed her the pictures and read her
the article, she now asks for the animal
cuddle story in Nana’s book before she
goes to sleep. This will be a memory
she takes through life. ANN SIMON