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is thinking about 'Gunner', an old family friend on Holocaust Memorial Day. He was interned at Auschwitz III Monovitz and at the end he saw the horrors of Buchenwald.
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Seconded. I watched an excellent documentary a few years ago about the liberation of one of the work camps in Eastern Germany, by the US Army in 1945. Seeing the elderly veterans - most of them around 90 - revisiting the area and choked up in recounting what they witnessed at the site. One particular veteran stuck in my mind, his voice breaking with fury but the energy of man fifty years younger, at the people who said this didn't happen and he hadn't seen what he had.
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The Squeeze is Polish, and all Polish schoolchildren in her day, still under communism, were taken to Auchwitz. She went when she was 14 and will never forget it.
The problem is that people who say it never happened are completly convinced of the conspiracy, and governments/government agencies in general but in the US in particular have not always behaved since WW2 in a way that has discouraged them. The conspiracy theorists are never going to be persuaded otherwise, and while it isn't about this particular matter, we have seen in the US and Brazil that some of them are armed to the teeth and prepared to act on their delusional beliefs, manipulated by those of their ilk who have borrowed the group's collective brain cell and can exploit the foot soldiers for their own ends. There's a massive untapped reservoir of racism, anti-semitism, envy of the more intelligent, and immigrant fear for these nutters to exploit. Even if you showed them around the camps, they'd tell you you'd built them post-war as a sort of sick theme park. Liberal democratic opinion is that the answer is education, and it is, but you can't educate pork, ultimately you can only slaughter it, which brings us all down to their level and is self-defeating.
I feel strongly about this and am greatly troubled by it. I have mental health problems and would have most certainly have been for the gas chambers myself in that place and time, and memory of the horror is the only thing that keeps it from recurring, mostly (but there've been genocides and death camps since WW2). The United Nations, a body whose general prinicples I have believed in all my life, is proving increasingly ineffective and it's main sponsor, the US, has effectively abandoned it. Where do we go now? Ok I'm gonna be brown bread soon and it doesn't affect me, but I don't want that sort of world; I have my principles, even as a burnt corpse! Thinking it won't happen again because our systems are effective in preventing it sounds to me like the best possible way to ensure that it happens again.
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has at last felt that Christmas has begun after hearing the service from Kings yesterday and this morning the really uplifting service from Bath Abbey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ca3OUbyd00
A very Happy and peaceful Christmas to all.
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....is so happy to welcome a second grandchild into the world.
Such personal joy at such a sad time.
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has had his evening spoiled by the God-awful shouting man on the inevitable bank holiday setee adverts! Such a con with all the 'reductions'🤢
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I don't watch anywhere near as much telly as I used to (and I never exactly had "square eyes" in the first place).
As for that guy with his noisome: "Irritating ads - YOU BUY ONE - YOU GET ONE FREE! I SAID YOU BUY ONE YOU GET ONE FREE!!" Well, I'm sure he'll be back - unfortunately.
I suspect that some advertisers imagine nagging away with ads that drive people up the wall is going to "implant" certain brand names in viewers' minds. Well, it won't if we switch off. Also, if they annoy me, I'll just make a point of not doing business with the company being advertised - and I don't think I'm alone in this regard.
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Goodnight Olivia. Such a lovely genuine person.
"Love and light"
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...can't stop smiling this morning!😃😃😃
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..is doing the 'first sort' of Grahame's 'stuff'. Thinking of the sheer volume of one's own 'bric-a-brac', it can be imagined just what is there. Some useful and interesting items will be appearing on the table at Taunton. Proceeds
will go to the hospital trust where Grahame was looked after.
CK will be visiting tomorrow for the 'second sort'.
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has just enjoyed 'The Third Man', a marvelous film of its time. The Anton Karas zither music lent such atmosphere.
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...has just enjoyed a lovely haggis supper. Deliciously peppery!
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Just about to enjoy a fresh lobster supper. Kindly given to me by a crab fisherman friend of my son.
Yum yum!
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Christmas has now begun for me after listening to the nine lessons and carols from Kings. It now brings very happy memories of listening to it on the way to Bristol a few years ago for the family Christmas gathering but sadly the lady who organized it all was taken from us far too early.
At school we used to sing 'Adeste Fidelis' in Latin. I do still try!
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Merry Christmas to you and yours, John.
The live broadcast is in the middle of the night here, of course, but I hope to hear it on the ABC later today. Our school carol service followed the same order of service and a local church here does the same, so it has provided a thread of continuity through many a changing time.
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..did enjoy the 'Third Man' movie on Friday. What a classic with that atmospheric zither music.
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I had the great good fortune to be sent to Vienna by the Queen, in 1955, to help hold back the Red Hoard!
The city had been partly rebuilt but was still a little worn at the edges, and we actually used to go past the doorway
from where Ha rry Lime was {not} killed! Lovely memories. National Service was not all bad!
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Christmas has now begun for me now listening to the Nine Lessons and Carols from Kings.
I am very fortunate to be able to spend tomorrow with my family and stay within the rules
A Happy and Peaceful Christmas to all.
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".... I ain't pretty and my legs are thin.."
Rest in peace Peter.
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has just heard from a leader of the retail motor trade, the use of the expression "previously enjoyed..." for used cars.
Gawd help us.....!
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has just watched 'Easter from Kings'.
An oasis of calm in these awful times.
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has enjoyed sitting in the sunshine in the garden. No rain forecast for a few days
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is catching a few rays in the garden with the first wearing of only a T-shirt this year!
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is remembering on this day an old family friend who was imprisoned in the Allied POW sub-camp of Auschwitz III (Monowitz) and with all the horrors that he saw.
Rest peacefully Gunner.
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Christmas has begun after listening to the evergreen Nine Lessons and Carols from Kings.
A Happy and Peaceful Christmas to all on here.
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has just consumed the last home grown ripened tomato.
Bye bye summer!