Monday is "Holocaust Remebrance Day"

Note:  This is a re-post of a previous paper I did a few weeks ago.  I felt it was necessary.  The point being, EVERYONE should think it is necessary!  This wasn't just about atrocities visited upon the Jewish religion and the Hebrew people, this was about turning a blind eye to intolerance.  This is about ignoring an insane military machine bent on world domination.  This is about why we stand for those that can't stand for themselves.  

I will politicize this, though I hate doing it because I feel this isn't the forum, but there are those in this country that would see us weakened to the point of being a target.  They forget history and what happens to those that are weak.  It is happening in Syria, and we turn away.  It happened at our embassy in Libya, and we buy the bullshit.  The Russians are pressing the test in the Ukraine and even Europe seems to have forgotten the cost of looking away.  Wake-up America and never forget:  Freedom comes at a price! 

"There is a Christian morality, there is a human morality which imposes duties and recognizes rights. These duties and rights are derived from the nature of men. It is in the power of no mortal to suppress them. Women, men, fathers and mothers are treated like as vile herd, members of the same family are separated from each other and shipped off to an unknown destination; it has been reserved to our times to see these sad spectacles.

Jews are men and women. Foreigners are men and women. There is a limit to what can be permitted against them; against these men, these women, against these fathers and mothers. They belong to the human race. They are our brothers like so many others."

-- Father Jules-Gerard Saliege

Holocaust Remembrance Day Monday
(Yom HaShoah)
April 27-28, 2014

"Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous.  More dangerous are...the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions."  

-- Primo Levi, chemist, author, Auschwitz survivor 

CAUTION:  I made this photo as small as possible to give you the choice of whether to enlarge it.  At full size it is a very disturbing reminder of absolute evil loosed upon the world.  A page of history some would rather forget.

We are supposed to remember history.  The reason we learn history is to try and head off the inevitability of bad history repeating itself.  History is supposed to teach us to learn from our mistakes, as well as our successes.  How are we to learn if we don't teach it?  How are we teach if we don't remember it.

With the state of our educational system in the U.S. today, it is a wonder our children learn anything, especially when there are those who would change history for "political correctness."  For instance, an African-American helping to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.  Never happened, but it is politically correct to include this segment of society in the historical moment.  I found it humorous when watching the latest remake of The Sound of Music to see the Mother Superior of the convent was a black woman.  Really?  This story was set in Austria in the late 1930's just prior to the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany.  The premise of the Mother Superior of an Austrian convent being black during this time period would have been more interesting to follow than the novice Maria or the family Von Trapp.  Hell, Hitler would have had an aneurysm.  But I digress.

Yom HaShoah begins the evening of Sunday, April 27 and end the evening of Monday, April 28.  There are those who would have us believe the Holocaust never happened.  These are the same loons that claim the moon landing was filmed on a back lot in Hollywood.  We built phony showers in concentration camps and outfitted them with phony Zyklon-B gas canisters.  We dug phony mass graves and outfitted them with hundreds of phony emaciated corpses.  We built brick and concrete phony furnaces and reams of phony Nazi paperwork supporting the entire facade of a "Holocaust" because that's what we do in order to justify going to war against an insane dictator hell bent on world domination.  Some how I just don't think so.  All this kind of unreasonable talk does is prove to the rest of us there are still psychopathic "functionaries" in the world with way too much time on their hands.

"The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that the Jews were being murdered.  This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us."

-- Ariel Sharon

Simon Wiesenthal once said, "God must have been on leave during the Holocaust."  Many people have asked how God could allow such evil to happen.  Did we not eat of the apple?  Did we not disobey God and, in doing so, lose paradise?  Yet, we blame the evil that men do - on God!  How human of us.  We were told by Christ in John 16:13 that there would be evil, "In the world you will have tribulation;" and only in Christ will we find peace. 

"Therefore, we might best respond by saying that God does not Will "bad" things to happen in life. Rather, "bad" things happen in the freedom that comes with the gift of life. When "bad" things happen to any of God's children, God is grieved and suffers with us, experienced most vividly in the hurt and suffering of Jesus the Christ for all humanity. Any "bad" thing which happens is never the last word. Rather, God is the deepest and last word, and that word is love and eternal life with God.

-- The Rev. Dr. Douglass M. Bailey

What the Nazi regime did to the Jews during "medical experiments" was an atrocity unto itself and fairly well publicized.  But, while what happened to the Jews during WWII bears our continued attention, what is lesser known are the activities of the Japanese and their Unit 731.  Activities of this unit could teach Dr. Mengela a thing or two about sick and twisted.  Their work would make for a terriffic present day horror film.  I won't go into graphic description but will cite as an example the amputation of a limb without anesthesia, and reattachment to the other side of the body.  I try to imagine myself on an operating table, fully conscious and no pain killers or anesthesia, watching this happen.  For more information and specifics I would recommend wikipedia.com and search "Unit 731."  A Google search will enlighten you with much more information you probably will not want to know.

If you think giving Nazi rocket scientists a free pass into the U.S. to assist with our space program was questionable, check this out.  After Japan surrendered, General MacArthur secretly granted immunity to the physicians of Japan's Unit 731 in exchange for providing the allies with their biological research.  Somehow it seems to me the world became complicit in the atrocities at this point.  Basically, these horrors are excusable as long as you give us the data.  One wonders if they were given carte blanche to continue this research as a "black program" for our government at some secret location under a large city with a sizable homeless population.  Hollywood loves this stuff.

I have said this many times before.  God has given us the tools we need; it is up to us to use them.  If we don't learn from the horrors of the past we are surely doomed to repeat them.  Is this what we want?  Look at the recent torture in Syria of women and children, or the annexation of Crimea.  Our recent european history is rife with mass graves due to mad men looking for a final solution.  The horrors are still with us.  The evil still haunts us.  We repeat history by turning a blind eye and doing NOTHING!  My only response to those that think God doesn't care is, "Why should He?  We don't."

Elie Wiesel was a survivor of Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald.  He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (yes, Obama, he actually did something to deserve his), the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, National Humanities Medal, Medal of Liberty, and many more.  I leave this post and my readers with a quote from Mr. Wiesel, and a hope that we never forget, or try to rewrite, our past.

"For the dead and the living, we must bear witness."