today i realize with a start that the horrors of the holocaust and the horrors of japanese occupation span the same time frame. the atrocities are so repugnant that i forget we are able to inflict so much on so many.
our societies respond with opposing paradigms. the west remembers with continuing memorials. the east honors by moving on.
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I visited Auschwitz/Birkenau...the experience was unforgettable..& all the while I was there, there was this incredible pain in my heart. Particularly poignant were the mountains of shoes and luggages, the latter with names & addresses written with the utmost care.
We should never forget.
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