I just read on the AOL home page about von Bruun, an 88 year old man (yes, 88) that opened fire on the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. I am sickened by this for so many reasons.
How does a man live to be 88 while harboring such hatred for people? And how can that same man walk into a museum filled with chidren and open fire? And how can a man perform such a heinous act in a place that pays homage to 6,ooo,ooo people that were murdered...and then commit murder?
I may be 50 years old, but I feel like a stupid kid. I don't understand this. I don't understand how someone can see the proof that the Holocaust DID happen and say it was a hoax? Ask the survivors. Ask the liberators. Ask the people that have been found guilty of participating. Ask the millions of people that lost their loved ones. IT DID HAPPEN and we can never, NEVER forget it. Nor forgive it.
As soon as I read this story it brought back memories of another shooting in a Jewish facility...a Jewish day care center nearly 10 years ago. Another anti-semetic, white supremist walked in and opened fire. Another place filled with children. The sickness in my stomach returned as I re-lived that day. Thank G-D that today no children were hurt. An innocent security guard was fatally shot. I don't mean to downplay that, but the fact that there were so many innocent children in the museum makes my blood boil even more. I think of the children shot in the shooting 10 years ago and tears roll down my face. I knew one that was shot and other kids that were there. And not only do they have to deal with the physical scars, how do you explain that they were victims merely because of their religion. How do you explain that there were 6,000,ooo people killed merely due to their religion. How do you explain that there are people filled with such hatred.
I would have thought that by 2009 there would be more tolerance. That there would be less racism, anti-semetism and hatred for people different from yourself. I guess I am wrong.
Please remember the Holocaust. Remember the victims. Remember the survivors. Remember the ones that lost their loved ones. Remember that it CAN happen again.
And pray (to whatever diety you pray to) that it doesn't happen ever again.
Until next time...
8 comments:
Mo, very good questions. It all sucks! Sorry about the word, sucks, but I'm so at a loss of words for this horrible act of violence.
Mo, I don't have the answers, I don't understand the hatred either. So very sad.
I promise you, I will remember, I will always remember..
xxoo
Mo: I'm so sorry you are hurting. I don't understand it either..I never have. Such a hatred has never made sense to me.
As I've told you, my uncle helped liberate the concentration camps. What he saw there just broke his heart. I saw tears in his eyes at the memory 40 years later. He never forgot. I will always remember.
JENNIFER, CAROL and KATHY...thanks for your kind words.
Those children may have not been physically harmed but dammit they will have to live knowing they lived as someone else died.nn hopefully none of them actually saw the guard get killed.
I will remember too Mo~
Thanks Sue. I know you will.
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