Kamila's Home In Prague

Visiting the Iron Lady of the Czech anticommunist resistance

That photo makes me so happy. It’s a shot of my son Matt and me with Kamila Bendova, the widow of Vaclav Benda, whose portrait is behind us. Readers of my work know in how much esteem I hold the Benda family. Though Matt and I were only in Prague for a couple of days, it was important to me to try to get by to see Kamila, and introduce my son to her, as…