I hear what you are saying.
I sat up all night with a holocaust survivors from the Lower East Side and heard their stories, incited by their chronic insomnia. Have, in nursing, taken care of 90 year old women with tattoos etched into their arms by hand - freehand.
the Holocaust happened. They killed children, they killed Mr. Goldberg’s parents and siblings in front of him. I was glad to be of any help to him, and I will tell anyone what I saw, the reactions and remnants of mans inhumanity to man.
And I have been on the receiving end of Saddam H. bombs, I know they are trying to kill us. I know they hate us and I know they are capable of and glad to kill people in all sorts of horrible ways.
No one needs to tell me what I need to see, and I know that some people can have a full understanding, as much as they need to, while still going about taking care of tasks at hand, when horror and disturbance cannot help, while instructing anyone who will hear, that the Iranians and these guys would kill our children in the same manner, and that anything is possible.
The most important thing is being vigilant to protect this country. And certainly not with denial and cowardice.
You have been a witness to horror so you, perhaps, don’t need to see these photos. That’s completely understandable. But so many people don’t take “a peek” (like my husband) and then have a skewed view of the horrors - you know, well, maybe those atrocities were not SO bad.
Baby boomers who grew up within the Tri-State era were taught by Holocaust survivors, had butchers who were survivors and landlords. Even my piano teacher had a tattoo on her arm. I guess it taught us early about horror.
I believe that you do. And that “being vigilant to protect our country” should be foremost... Currently it is not doing so.
We can therefore expect to see some of these happenings occurring right here....which some have known of already, though isolated or not reported as they are when they do occur.