Where do I go to resign from human race?
Giuliani, amazingly, gets sued again by same 2 women a day after losing case
By Ken Tingley
Over the past year and a half, I have visited the National World War II Museum in New Orleans five or six times.
It’s an added incentive that my son works there.
If you haven’t been to New Orleans and you love history, you have to visit. Your destination should be the museum, not Bourbon Street.
In 2018, the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards ranked the National World War II Museum No. 3 in the United States and No. 8 in the world. The National 9/11 Memorial and Museum was No. 1 in the country and the Metropolitan Museum of Art No. 2.
The museum recently opened a new wing called the “Liberation Pavilion.”
It chronicles what happened after the war.
It picks up after the fire-bombing of Tokyo and the dropping of the atomic bombs and devastation to most of Germany’s cities.
It picks up with the discovery of the concentration camps in Europe.
The war crimes trials in Japan and Germany.
The plight of millions of refugees in Europe and the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe.
I found myself again sitting in a museum theater listening to Holocaust survivors and their American liberators talking about the discovery of the camps.
Tears running down their faces.
For some, tears of happiness in what they called the “greatest day of their life.”
For others, tears because they could never erase witnessing man’s inhumanity to man.
You could hear a pin drop in the theater.
Midnight quiet.
Along the way, there was this statistic: Some 25,000 Europeans were killed every day during World War II.
Twenty-five thousand.
Every day.
Wrap your arms around that number. I know I couldn’t.
That’s eight 9/11s every day for the duration of the war.
Every day.
Three million Soviet prisoners were killed.
Six million Jews killed along with millions of Slavs, Romanians, homosexuals and other minorities.
More people were killed during World War II than the sum of every previous war. It was a grim reality to face.
As I left the theater, I wanted to know where to go to resign from the human race.
It was that bad.
I decided I should be rooting for climate change to put us all out of our misery.
And with brutal wars in Ukraine and the the Mideast continuing and undoubtedly writing another chapter in the brutality of the world, I wondered how anyone could justify bringing a child into the world.
The politics of the moment make it more frightening with one candidate promising to forsake the very principles that made victory in World War II possible.
Our love of freedom and democracy.
And the reminder why people all over the world want the same opportunities we take for granted, but maybe not for long.
I wondered if one election could undo all that the Greatest Generation did.
It’s good to know our history.
To understand the evil that exists in the world.
To be reminded of the slaughter of millions of Chinese and Russians.
And the monstrous experimentation done on human beings by the Japanese and German doctors.
Yet after spending another whole day in the national World War II Museum, I was stunned to read in Chris Churchill’s column in the Albany Times Union a new poll by the Economist magazine found that 20 percent of respondents aged 18 to 29 believed the Holocaust is a myth. Another 30 percent said they didn’t know if the Holocaust was a myth.
These people need to crack a book.
Or visit a museum.
Perhaps there needs to be a constitutional amendment forcing citizens to visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington or the National World War II Museum in New Orleans before you can exercise your right to vote.
The photos - pre photoshop I might add - the documentation, the interviews with survivors and liberators alike are difficult to digest, horrific to hear but necessary to understand the man race is capable of.
And what evil men are saying they will do again in our country.
Know your history and maybe, for once, we can avoid repeating it.
Giuliani getting sued again
The stunning verdict against Rudy Giuliani in the Georgia election worker case was only more stunning when Giuliani continued to spread the lies about their actions and was promptly sued by the same two women again.
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Thank God the coming of the Light is in a few days. If you want to feel worse, there’s Peter Wehner at Atlantic who writes not only about the Hamas atrocities, but the unconscionable people harassing Jews in this country for no reason other than being Jewish.
It’s probably behind a paywall. The Atlantic is worth every penny, tho.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/biden-progressive-moderate-left-israel-hamas-war/676392/
I've had many discussions with my daughter about whether she wants to bring a child into this world. My thoughts have always been "If you do, you will have such wonderful children, they will make the world a better place." I feel strongly that I have given the world three gifts in my children. I do worry about what my children and grandchildren will be subjected to. I've read about the Holocaust since I was a little girl. It makes me crazy when someone questions whether it actually happened. I feel the same about Sandy Hook and all of the other conspiracy theory nutty stories. We will never learn from our mistakes if no one acknowledged that they happened in the first place. Some are counting on that.