Posted on 11/14/2010 5:33:01 AM PST by Gomer1066
When I was growing up, the dark miasma of the Holocaust was still so pervasive that the famous slogan "Never Forget!" seemed almost irrelevant. How could anyone forget Hitler and his murderous goose-steppers? It was hard to imagine a world where that supreme evil was not remembered as a stern and awful warning. I heard Holocaust survivors insisting that we must never forget, and I thought they were just repeating the obvious. Why did they have to keep on saying it?
Well, they were right, after all. They understood more about human nature than I did. It was necessary to say it over and over again, because by now our Kultur Commissars in Hollywood and the media have deliberately forgotten it.
Today the Left has lost the Holocaust and its moral meaning -- not just the simple fact of 6 million Jews, plus millions more gays, gypsies, handicapped people, anti-Nazis, Russian and Polish civilians who just got in the way, Londoners who died in the Blitz, and tens of millions of "mere" war victims who lost their lives between 1939 and 1946 at the hands of inconceivably cruel regimes like the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
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