I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
Anyone who prefers a Trump win over any non-Bernie Democrat does not actually care about any of the things Bernie stands for. He said himself in 2016: ”Hillary Clinton would be a better President on her worst day than Donald Trump would be on his best day.”
If you want to let the world burn because your guy didn’t win then that’s on you. Just know that Bernie doesn’t agree with you.
Now I’m think of my grandfather and his time shooting nazis and freeing camps! He was a good man, may he rest in peace!
I never met my Father a French citizen, he died of TB the month before I was born. His journals are my only link to his life, I read them when time permits, and they are a horrifying source of details fighting Nazis / War II in Europe.
Holy shit, that sounds amazing! Are they in English or French (or both)? Hopefully, when you pass on, you’ll either leave them for your kids or pass them to some archive somewhere. The further we move away from that period of time, the more these kinds of documents need to be preserved and documented for posterity.
If you change the dates, this would describe the rationale for a significant chunk of the Trump voters in '16. And the results would be even more disastrous.
I have slowly translated them from French to English, since I don’t know French, it’s time consuming to say the least. My Son will get the entire translation / original batch upon my departure. The sicking parts are when he discovers family / friends that had been murdered by the Nazis, Nazis kept excellent records of their atrocities. He lost every family member, even distant relatives. He was entirely alone in the World. My Son & I are the only living of his family tree. My apologies for the depressingly sad addition to this thread…
Thank you for sharing that.
Not at all! Thank YOU for sharing your family history with a bunch of folks on line!
Thanks for the hug.
Oh my, this is certainly going well.
Empty.
Chair.
With a name on a sign.
“The Honorable”?!?!
I’m sure “contempt” has a very precise legal meaning, but this is about as close as you can come to literal contemptuousness, colloquially speaking.
I am so sorry to hear this, and I now have a fuller understanding of your commendable postings in other threads about fighting Nazis. Thank you.
I have a dear friend who is in similar situation–his Polish father barely made it to the U.S. in time, and every single relative back in Poland was murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices. My friend has been one of my best teachers, and I only wish I could have thanked his father and listened to his side of the story before he died at an advanced age.
When I hear accounts like yours, I wonder which people in our own times we as Americans will save and shelter, and whose families will be murdered, because of the current U.S. government’s stance on refugees and sanctuary status.
Thank you for posting.
We need to be reminded.
Every.
Dang.
Day.
Genocide is real, pogroms are real, government-organized killing is real. All of this needs to be talked about, especially by those who have experienced direct consequences from it, especially since the living memory of it is disappearing, and it is all we have to caution the younger generations with.
Tell it, brother (or sister), tell it.
One of my partners has a picture of the gate of Bergen-Belsen hanging in his office. Once I asked him why he did that. Turns out his Mom survived the holocaust there and his dad was one of the British troops who liberated the camp. I said that was a story that needed to be a book. He said they never spoke of it. It was too painful. Likewise, he has no maternal relatives living.
That’s a wonderful memorial to your father and legacy for your son. Also, on behalf of history, you have my personal thanks for the work you’re doing preserving his memories, painful though they must be.
My god.
Also: my thanks to all who did everything they did so that your partner is alive and practicing today.
The human mind is such a complicated thing. Human culture also. I feel they often work at cross-purposes wrt human survival.
Even if the truth of an indisputably horrible, virtually indescribable, nightmare-of-a story is exactly the very medicine–bitter and sobering as it is–we need to hear and understand as a culture, the telling of that truth [I sense] re-traumatizes the teller so much that the workable coping strategy of avoiding telling it seems like the best policy.
I can hardly blame any survivor of trauma, let alone a holocaust survivor, for that.
It takes a unique individual who is willing to talk about it, whether to family, or publicly. I have no idea if I ever could. Even if I were in their place, would I do when faced with a holocaust denier? (sheeesh it’s hard enough for me to deal with climate change deniers)
We live among heroes who are invisible and have chosen anonymity.
I try to remind myself that other people’s struggles, unknown to me and unremarked upon in casual conversation, are part of what keeps us tied together on common ground.
And when society collectively forgets, the fascists and their enablers re-emerge:
Is that illegal, or is anyone proposing such a law?
As I understand it, it is an unprecedented stretch of campaign finance laws to say that information constitutes a contribution (if that’s the law you’re referring to).
