ABSTRACT
One morning, in a school for disturbed teenagers, 16-year-old Mel was reading The New York Times as part of current events, and latched onto an article on the bombing of Dresden in World War II. Although the city had no military value, the allies fire bombed this medieval architectural treasure purely to terrorize and break the will of the German people. The firestorm annihilated thousands of civilians, and is one of the few war atrocities perpetrated by American and British forces. The article covered a recent candlelight peace march, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the terror-bombing.
