Today at 10:00 AM our "air raid" sirens sounded and the nation came to a brief but important stand still as we took a moment to remember the over 6 million Jews who were killed by the Nazi's in WWII. I usually am very gracious to the opinions of others but it is completely despicable that there is a movement led by people like the deranged president of Iran (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) that claims the Holocaust never happened. Almost equally detestable is the opinion that the current actions directed against Gaza are worse than the Holocaust. Let me be clear that there is a serious situation in Gaza and it demands attention, but it is not equivalent to the death camps of WWII (this is not an excuse for the unfair treatment of thousands of Palestinians, just a plea to please not make such an unequal comparison).
Today is a day that we should remember the people who died at the hands of the Nazis and perhaps the millions of Chinese that were placed into camps by the Japanese, and even the thousands of Japanese that were placed into camps by the Americans. Racial/ tribal hatred continues and acts of Genocide recently occurred in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan (just to name a few). Please remember these tragedies today.
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