Emil Drastík

- "Have you encountered anyone insinuating that you are from Prajzká? That you're a Prajzák?" They always said that I was a Prajzák, that we were Germans...So yes, they alluded to that." - "And what did you tell them?" - "I said we grew up there. It was Czech for a while. For a while it was German. So we didn't even know ourselves where we belonged. That's why so many soldiers had to fight when we were under the Germans. And how many young lives were lost in that war. We have a memorial to the fallen there. There are two plaques from the First World War with all the names on them. On the other side is War Thirty-Nine to Forty-Five. And who wanted that? It doesn't matter if you're born a Krajzák or a Czech. Or this. It doesn't matter. As long as we love each other. Let's work for the good and all that. But that's the way people see it. For example, we were on vacation at Orlík, we went mushroom picking with my wife, and our little daughter called out, 'Daddy, come here.' There were some typical Czechs around, and they said, 'They must be Poles.' "