[TruthTalk] Auschwitz

[Jeff Powers]

Hello one and all, I got this today and am still stunned by it:   Coming on the heels of the December 2, 2004 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) televised poll which revealed that nearly half of Britons had never heard of the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz, a Jewish organization in Florida has released a study demonstrating 63% of a typical United States city could not identify the infamous Polish concentration camp.    www.isfsp.org/study.html. It even brought to mind several other atrocities that should never be forgotten; the Pol Pot Regime in Cambodia, Tianamen Square in China, Stalin's barbarity(thanks Slade). In a personal conversation Slade said  that the prevalant attitude was something like this," Well it's not my people, so what?"  And I have to agree with his assesment, that is what seems to be the attitude.  I am disturbed that we as a people (I don't necessarily mean us on TT), as mankind can be so insensitive and uncaring. In one, two or three generations we seem to want to forget what we as human beings wish had never happened. It's a disgusting human trait.    I'm not even sure why I'm writing and forwarding this except that it's my wish and plea that all you parents and grandparents take an active role in our childrens education. If we don't teach the truth that these horrible acts REALLY did happen, within another generation history will be completely rewritten. I know that with my own daughter the school system was already attempting to deny several less than honorable events in history. Some of it was regarding WW1, WW2 and even the American Revolution and the Civil War. However, Tiff was sharp enough to recognize the distortion and ask at home about things. For me the most disturbing thing was that the school board could care less and even went along with the curriculums distorted agenda. The result was in order to get a passing grade, Tiff had to answer test questions with, as she called it, lies.  If that is what it takes to pass in the worlds system, something is really wrong. But that means WE have to educate our children ourselves and continue to encourage them to teach the truth and remember the horrors of man to their children.  OK, off the stump and back into my hole in the log. Jeff   Life makes warriors of us all. To emerge the victors, we must arm ourselves with the most potent of weapons. That weapon is prayer. --Rebbe Nachman of Breslov