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To: veronica
It was a very power program. I had a pain in my chest as I watched it, and had to wipe back the tears. I thought about leaving the room, but couldn't. This should be played for every high school senior civics class in the country. NEVER FORGET!
45 posted on 03/11/2002 7:15:41 AM PST by NorseWood
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To: NorseWood
This should be played for every high school senior civics class in the country

That is actually a VERY GOOD suggestion! When I was a soph. in high school (in 1968), my World History teaher took us to an assembly which now that I think about it might have been for all the kids in the school (10th 11th and 12th grades)We sat there in the dark and were absolutely stunned and horrified by a movie depicting the Holocaust during WWII. I had NEVER seen anything about it, so it was a huge shock to me. I can still remember the footage of Jewish prisoners tossing the bodies of their dead into large pits. These bodies were no more than bones with a little skin left on them because of the starvation. This was before the 'final solution' architects came up with the idea of the ovens to get rid of the bodies so they wouldn't take up so much room, then the gas cambers so they wouldn't even have to feed them for any length of time! It reduced even the toughest of the jocks to tears.

If the high schoolers can see this, they will NEVER forget that day. They will see if from the vantage point of men who were on the scene and who witnessed the attacks and their horrific aftermath.

Like Andrew Sullivan, the image of that fireman vomiting into the trash can was very powerful. It was like he was trying to rid his body of all the evil he had witnessed. I thought the whole documentary was very well done. I didn't need to see the bodies; the sound of them crashing down and the sickened looks on the firemens' faces was enough for me. The filmmakers were there to record what the firemen were doing, not to run around and get other pictures. But I thought they were right not to film the people who were one fire, out of respect for those people and their families; they were not trying to be voyeurs.

82 posted on 03/11/2002 8:27:25 AM PST by SuziQ
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