Yes there was a holocaust and the Iranian President wants one more
Of course there WAS a holocaust. My father served in Europe in WWII. My brother and I saw the pictures . Dad brought them when he returned safely home to mother. We found them in a dresser. We saw the harvest of evil in small black and white photos brought home in an Army officer's trunk, saved because of the lesson....
And the lesson is still NEVER AGAIN.I've just received an email (reproduced below), one of those hundreds of ‘forwards’ one gets these days. But this was from a physician I respect, someone who – as do I – strongly supports the cause of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish refuge state. This was a forward from another good physician, someone I don’t know, and it contained an email trail.
The normal protocol is to erase an email trail to protect the privacy of those who are in the chain, then to re-forward the piece – if one is inclined to do so. But, for technical reasons, I can’t elide the trail of email addresses for the message I received.
So I have elected to post the entire message on the ‘Bridge to Being Blog’.
For this purpose, I’m considering the whole work to be public domain. If I am wrong, I invite someone holding the copyright(s) to contact me by email at – law@jaygaskill.com .
The piece begins with a compelling, not copyrighted picture, and includes a brilliant and touching ‘Non Sequitur’ cartoon by Wiley, whose work is syndicated nationally. There is no indication whether the cartoonist has given copyright permission, but I believe that Wiley would approve a limited distribution. So, in lieu of a forward, I’m posting everything here for the next ten days, after which I’ll pull it down.
Please do share this.
Jay B. Gaskill
In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER
Please read the little cartoon carefully, it's powerful. Then read the comments at the end.
I'm doing my small part by [forwarding] posting this message. I hope you'll consider doing the same.
In Memoriam
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian Peoples looking the other way!
Now, more than ever, with Iraq, Iran , and others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.
This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide!
Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world.[][][]
One comment:
Why, why, I must ask, was the despicable Iranian president, a holocaust denier and Israel hater - who was given an international platform in New York City NOT roundly denounced for his views by every congressional leader and, dare I say it, our new President? Only the Israeli President, in words worthy of a Churchill, spoke truth to venality. The silence from POTUS and the chattering left and isolationist right was stunning. G-d save Israel and G-d save the USA
JBG
JBG
