History must never repeat itself

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Originally Posted by Skybird

Thomas Lessing's remark that "history is nothing else than attributing a meaning to the meaningless."

Today is in fact the liberation date of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a fact not lost on the Knesset in their selection of the site, and not inappropriately if my great grandmother has any thing to say about it. She immigrated at the turn of the century and married a Methodist!? in the temple in Brooklyn! The rest of the Koenigs we don't know about...Also of note is that on this date 60 nations signed an accord to ban orbiting nuclear weapons..one wonders at the distinction as we revolve around the sun; the globe IS the orbiting nuclear weapon! Throw in the one recent weekend in Rawanda where 700,000+ were killed with machetes-no need for technology-and it is evident that the holocaust beast is alive and well. Human trafficking is alive and well and religious intolerance is alive and well. I'm glad I'm old 'cause I suspect strongly that what we call the holocaust now, looking back, ain't gonna be it ; that is still to come. Well, at least we nearly eradicated polio.