Been almost 60 yrs since the end of WWII, and tonight

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

I was thinking about how my daughter and I are going to make some ornaments for our Christmas tree this year (we usually do a few every year).

My daughter said she wanted to paint a peace sign on one of those clear glass globe ornaments and I said that sounded nice and she said "I want to paint on the other side 'Peace in 2005.'"

And I suddenly remembered something. In Anne Frank's diary, there is an entry in which Miep brings them a cake from the outside that she baked (BIG luxury for them) and she wrote in icing "Peace in 1944." In 1945, Anne, her sister and her mother died in the concentration camps.

Still no peace in the world. And Steven Speilberg has a video titled "Survivors of the Shoah" in which he interviewed some survivors who were just children or teenagers at the time. One guy tells the story of the day he asked his father "what's going to happen to us?" and his father looked at him and said "Don't worry. They're not gonna kill us. It's the 20th century." His entire family was killed.

His father believed no one could be that craven in the 20th century, as to just kill an entire group of people who did nothing to anyone.

:cry:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. I was just thinking today...

them more things change the more they stay the same. Feels like that applies here, too.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2. Hey

we were on the same wavelength!

(Isn't it sad? Who would think going into 2005, we'd still be obsessed with spending too much taxpayer money on new bombs and we'd have sick kids still not able to go to the doctor AND that we'd be killing people who did nothing to us? If you told me all this in 1992, I might not believe you.)