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3 of 3 Premium Clicks used this month SUBSCRIBE Print + Online Subscriber Activation | Register x Forgot Password | Need an Account? e-edition | subscribe | newsletter | deals Home News Latest Stories New Bear Creek project trades blackberries for native plants Emergency Services, March 9 Phoenix Garden Club strives to help make Weed green again Ashland police confirm Hannah Thomas-Garner is safe with her father Oversold Central Point monster truck show leaves fans out in cold Crime, Courts and Emergency Services Emergency Services, March 9 Ashland police confirm Hannah Thomas-Garner is safe with her father Emergency services, March 8 Jackson County searchers looking for missing man Emergency services, March 7 Politics and Elections Ex-Merkley aide chosen as Oregon secretary of state Ashland: Budget increase, swimming pool funding discussion on council agenda Judge upholds Phoenix's moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries Ballots on Jackson County marijuana tax go out Friday Brown's inauguration brings hope to local lawmakers Education Willow Wind students raise money for water District considers options to keep school tracks open, safe Ashland School District learns why its anti-bullying rating was low Ashland district rethinks transfer approval process MSD to save taxpayers nearly $10.5 million by refinancing Environment Catastrophic wildfires expected in Southern Oregon this summer The new normal under climate change? 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Oversold Central Point monster truck show leaves fans out in cold ... Missing teen Hannah Thomas-Garner found safe ... New Bear Creek project trades blackberries for native plants ... Oversold Central Point monster truck show leaves fans out in cold ... Missing teen Hannah Thomas-Garner found safe ... COLUMNIST FOR A DAY When silence gave way to noise By Tony Antonides for the Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Tony Antonides for the Mail Tribune Posted Mar. 8, 2015 @ 2:00 am By Tony Antonides for the Mail Tribune Posted Mar. 8, 2015 @ 2:00 am --> LEND US YOUR VOICE Do you have a point? Then maybe you can be a columnist for a day. Email a 500-word column to Mail Tribune features editor David Smigelski at [email protected]... » Read more X LEND US YOUR VOICE Do you have a point? Then maybe you can be a columnist for a day. Email a 500-word column to Mail Tribune features editor David Smigelski at [email protected] , and include your city of residence. The rules are simple. Keep it short. Have a point. Don’t cuss. And make us glad we asked. » Social News p bs:newslist StartDate="20121121" EndDate="p bs:datecalc Months="3"" DateSort="1" UseObjects="1" ObjectClass="81" Taxonomywords="2325,665" ExactTaxonomyMatch="1" Image="1" Count="4" --> As it often happens, I go back with my thoughts to the days of my youth. I don't understand what it is that brings me mentally again to those days prior to World War II. In the stillness of the evening, I would sit at the back of our home. It would be so quiet, not a sound to be heard. There were no automobiles, no loud talking people around anywhere. It was a stillness that had to be observed. In the far, far distance, a cow would let a slow melancholy moo, a dog a lonely bark. And all around us came the dew slowly rising out of the ditches surrounding the cow pastures. My mom would come out and sit next to me. She would ask, "What are you doing?" I would answer softly, "I am listening to the silence." "Yes," would be her reply, "isn't it impressive?" That would be the end of our conversation, but we would go on with the listening. She would understand where I was coming from and what enticed me during those balmy summer evenings to sit there. My dad did not see it our way, or I should say, hear it our way. Slowly the dew would nearly enfold the cows in the pasture, and all we could see of them would be some slow-moving gray silhouettes. Oh, the peace of it all. All that changed after a few years. The war found even us in our dreamlike corner of the universe. No longer the solitude of the summer evening. Now in its place came relentless noise, military trucks, hob-nailed boots goose-stepping down the cobbled, lined streets of our small village. But we had hope. A hope that some day soon that peaceful existence with balmy summer nights would return. But it never did. The military trucks and the boots disappeared. But the people left behind had changed. No longer were they satisfied to act as silent partners in a changed world. Now there was noise. The world that had been laid in ruin needed rebuilding, and that caused noise. The people, previously content with whatever they had and used to a tranquil existence, no longer possessed the precious commodity of inner peace. Instead, a different attitude and feeling toward their fellow man now made its appearance. A feeling of "can I help you?" was replaced with "me first." I, too, changed. All of us had seen the methods of the enemy during those war years — how they had operated and dealt with certain situations. Somehow, regrettably, it did rub off somewhat on all of us. I became more violent toward young birds. I considered them a dirty nuisance, and I would take them from their warm nests and drown or suffocate them. Thankfully, after a while, I outgrew that deplorable act. Did the peaceful evenings sitting in back of my parents home ever return? No, they did not. They never came back, although I kept looking for them for a number of years. I grew up and moved away. Now I only have the memories of those peaceful evenings, which now, looking back, seemed almost like a spiritual awakening. Tony Antonides lives in Central Point. 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