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Old 02-15-2012, 11:05 PM
 
Location: Cushing OK
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Watched a documentory the other night - I had forgotten how horrific it was_ and If I a man of 60 - who had parents that witnessed the horror - and who describe the horror to me as a child - have FORGOTTEN - then the younger generation has TOTALLY forgotten - and their lack of vigilance against such evil may be something that can NOT be instilled...history will repeat itself - it's just a matter of time...I feel sorry for what my children and grand children will have to suffer - cos things can go south very quickly and without warning - todays generation is dull to history...
I was editing a tape of a broadcast of World at War, the episode Genocide. Very quiet, very stark and little embellishment. The pictures tell the story. He went through highschool and took all the history you had to. He'd 'heard' of it, and I looked at him and he's sitting there with tears streaming down his cheeks and says, I never say this, didn't know anyone could be do horrible.

We must never quit reminding ourselves of the depths of depravity human being are capable of or we fall for the comfort of believing they never will.

Just like the footage of the war, especially stuff like the island landings. I saw something of it last night, trying to find something of interest on TV. I thought about how somewhere out there Dad was, and what horrible stuff he saw and how he hated war and guns and violence the rest of his life, and understood why he never tried to talk about it.

People don't want to see uglyness, but they have to to really believe it can be.
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Old 02-16-2012, 07:06 AM
 
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Go visit Dresden and talk to some of the people who survived the fire bombings. You won't see the same anti-American/British angst as you read about in threads like this.

I've been there. We took a tour of the city, and the tour guide (who survived the bombings) said to us, "We knew the Nazis started the war and it was eventually going to come back on the German people."

This sort of "Western guilt" and calling Dresden a "holocaust" is just pointless revisionist history. It's disingenuous and does a disservice to compare it to the Holocaust perpetrated by Hitler and the Nazis.
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Old 02-16-2012, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Lake Arlington Heights, IL
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To minimize the Dresden bombings is wrong. But in my mind to call it a holocaust, minimizes the greater terror of the Holocaust; especially with so many denying the Holocaust happened or attempting to diminish it's evil. Just my opinion FWIW
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