A new 3-min. break for you, dear viewers… about an imposed break I've just experienced (May 20—yesterday as I write this).
Suddenly my phone was blaring and showing a red exclamation mark: Air raid alert! Immediately take shelter in a safe place, take care of your loved ones.
An unidentified drone entered Lithuanian airspace. President and Prime Minister were taken to emergency shelters.
No one had seen this before in Vilnius.
The few Lithuanians around me trying to figure out where the shelter was didn't show any sign of nervousness, which reminded me of the following story evoking British courage and nerve in the face of the Nazis, even in the midst of bombing.
During the Blitz—the relentless German bombing campaign over London in World War II—a foreign correspondent needs to reach a radio studio on the other side of the city. Londoners have been ordered to take shelter, but a cab driver is sitting quietly in his taxi, waiting for a fare. The journalist seizes the opportunity and jumps in. Bombs fall all around them throughout the journey, yet they arrive unscathed. "Wow," says the journalist, "what luck we had." The driver replies: "Oh yes, not a single red light!"
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