The New Haven Independent published my account of a recent family trip to India.

A version also appears at Medium.

Tomorrow marks Victory in Europe (V-E) Day, the 71^st anniversary of the announcement of the surrender of the German Nazi regime to the Allies on May 8, 1945.  This momentous historical event had personal angles for families around the world -- especially but not only those actually serving in the war.  

At the time, my mother (of Lutheran background) was a child in Germany, my father (of Jewish descent) a child in New York.  Seventeen years later, they would marry in an example of one of globalization’s happier effects. 

Peace, and Mother’s Day greetings…