FRISCO, Texas — Inside Windhaven Senior Living in Frisco, 86-year-old Amy George doesn’t need a television to see the horror of war.
Because the last time Ukraine was invaded, she was there.
Her health makes it hard to remember every detail, but her daughter, Debbie Cannaday, has never forgotten the stories.
“It’s sheer terror in the hearts of everybody,” Cannaday recalls her mom describing it.
George was just an infant when the Soviet army broke down the door and imprisoned her dad in 1937.
A few years later, the Nazis invaded and forced the rest of her family into a labor camp.
Eventually, George escaped to the United States and wrote a book about all of it.
She says it’s horrible to see it happening again.
“I love my people,” George said.
If there’s any silver lining, it’s how most of the world has responded.
“The world was united,” George said. “United. People were united.”
“Just never give up that hope,” Cannaday added. “Never give up.”
George said we may not share a border, but we do share our humanity.
When she fled Germany, a lot of good people risked their lives to help her hide and eventually escape.
The compassion she was shown 80 years ago remains with her today.
That was abundantly clear at the end of our interview when she said something that caught us completely off guard.
“I love you,” he said.
When asked how she can love someone she doesn’t even know, George said, “Oh you can. You can love somebody.”
Whenever this war ends, it will be another reminder that evil can try to claim its place, but eventually love conquers all.