On February 23, 1944, Anne Frank wrote, "I go to the attic almost every morning to get the stale air out of my lungs." From her favorite spot on the floor, Anne and Peter "looked out at the blue sky, the bare chestnut tree glistening with dew, the seagulls and other birds glinting with silver as they swooped through the air, and we were so moved and entranced that we couldn't speak."
Unfortunately, this 150 to 200-year-old chestnut tree that gave Anne so much comfort has been attacked by a fungus. While some fear the tree will topple over onto the Anne Frank house, others want to save the tree. A day before the tree was to be cut down, Judge Jurjen Bade issued a reprieve until mid-January in the hopes that some way could be found to save the tree.
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How on earth could such a precious inheritance have been so neglected? A fungus was allowed to go unchecked to the degree that it may now deliver a death blow? How could this happen? Why didn’t anyone notice and bring it to media attention so the situation could be publicized and hopefully treated early enough? In this day and age, when a low-level starlet’s change of nail polish is prime news all over the world ten minutes after it happens, why didn’t we hear about it before now?
i dot think that the tree should be left there to die it is a very old tree now and some people should have left it alone and still checked it and then regulary checked it. I also dont think that the tree shouldn`t be ony temporarily saved. It should be temporarily saved it should be permently saved thank you and good night.