Posted on 04/28/2003 12:26:15 PM PDT by knighthawk
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:09:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
After a somber ceremony at Faneuil Hall yesterday, Holocaust survivors joined some of the men who helped free them from Nazi death camps, and celebrated the unveiling of the Liberators' Monument, raising an American flag and embracing US Army veterans from World War II.
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I always thought that monument was Israel.
Where are the weapons of mass destruction!
No, it didn't. It has to be said that American society in that era was still sufficiently suspicious of Jews that FDR didn't dare make their plight his cause. He did more than he could have been expected to do, in driving the country to war in the first place against 80% opposition. Had he announced the dreadful persecution the Jews of Europe were under, he feared a main street backlash against the whole WWII project.
Or maybe you think that their sacrifice isn't appreciated because there isn't some rock sitting on the mall in Washington DC?
My guess is that if you were to ask those who died for others (and us) 60 years ago, they'd give more of a damn about the security, freedom, and longevity of a race of people than a hunk of granite with pretty words on it.
Seems like you're the one whose memorial is rather underwhelming.
Uhhhmmm, and just what was MY memorial???
My objection is to your presumptive attitude which states: " The only monument needed to commemorate Jewish Holocaust survivors is a secure (i.e. Arab-free) Jewish state in Eretz Yisrael". I think the opinions of those Americans who were in WW2 and who appreciated the monument weigh far more than that kiss off.
Again, your expression of narrow and self-centered gratitude for those who paid the price is underwhelming and insulting.
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