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MoonRiver
(36,974 posts)
dameatball
(7,608 posts)onethatcares
(16,670 posts)have waited until close to the last of the greatest generation have died to do so.
Most of them never fought in any combat or military positions, they've only swift boated and
shot from the sidelines of a video game.
Life is not a box of chocolates, it's good against evil. You get to choose what you swallow.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)How many have forgotten or understand the meaning.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,172 posts)at least 56,000 died there. I am astonished that the number (either number) is so small, given the terrible numbers who died in the many camps.
On our honeymoon in 1980 we went to (among other countries) Poland, where my husband's family were mostly from. They were/are Ashkenazi Jews. I insisted we go to Auschwitz. He was reluctant, and I'm not entirely sure he was glad we went, but I certainly am. There are things that need to be seen.
As the Holocaust retreats from living memory, it is very important we preserve what we know.

The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)in a Catholic church in Montreal. It is called the 39th Christian Commemoration of the Shoah.
In these days of deepening divisions, she is passionately committed to ecumenism.