User talk:KlisterKid

I took Amtrak from Boston to Granby, CO in March 2011. I remember stopping at the Omaha's Amtrak Station (formerly Burlington) around midnight. I took several pictures. The station itself was a shambles then even though it was on the Historic Register. The local Hearst TV station (KCET) remodeled the interior from 2013 to 2015 when it started using its new offices. The actual station itself over the tracks appears not to have changed. The Amtrak station is more like an inexpensive bus station.

Basic question: In Europe train stations serve as anchors for a town or city. They are almost a mini-shopping mall with restaurants, shops, and so on. Have Omaha, the TV station, and "concerned citizens" considered doing more with the site? William P Aldrich (talk) 05:42, 28 January 2016 (UTC)KlisterKid

Thoughts on Reiters Syndrome
I have had Reiter's Syndrome my entire life. A doctor diagnosed it for me in 1974. He told me that Dr. Reiter's work occurred during World War ONE in Poland. Here is a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Conrad_Julius_Reiter Dr. Reiter was in Hungary when he identified it, but his major work was during World War TWO using concentration camp inmates.

I am well aware that WW2 is a very sensitive subject even today. I discovered that my father was a "guest worker" for the Germans during WW2. He was in the pre-war Norwegian merchant marine. The Germans made him an "offer" he could not refuse. He was in Pillau, East Prussia, in late 1944 through March 1945 as a navigator on the "Meteor", a small cruise ship converted to a hospital ship; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_March_1945 There is more to the story (much accessible via the web; but also some personal information and reflection).

I disapprove of the change from Reiter's Syndrome to auto-immune reactive arthritis for a few reasons; a) Dr. Reiter was not the first to identify aspects of the syndrome; the link above describes its identification in the 16th century, Brodie's work in the nineteenth century, and others in the early twentieth century; b) the rush to make "politically correct" judgments just because the Nazis did it white-washes how the US used Nazis as soon as WW2 ended (read Operation Paperclip (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip); I found it troubling, nauseating, and disturbing); c) political correctness diminishes a deeper knowledge of the unsavory past of many technical advances since WW2 (e.g., Nazi designs for submarines, jet fighters, surface-to-air missiles, ballistic missiles, radar, and stealth aircraft); Japanese "advances" in blood based on "research" that Unit 731 conducted in Manchuria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731), as well as the US' role as a unique experiment in democracy is not as unique as most might think (sadly). I am not trying to write an essay now, but I would like to hear what others have to say.

William P Aldrich (talk) 06:26, 28 January 2016 (UTC)KlisterKid