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Marty Schafer's avatar

I was beginning to wonder, until I reached the end.

In 1977 I had the privilege to travel in Europe and Israel. To walk through Auschwitz and Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Tel-Lakish. And Masada.

I understand the promise "Never agan." But why should it only apply to one group, one people? What about the Roma who also perished? I barely made it through "The Killing Fields," when it later came out about Cambodia. Angola, Rhodesia, Gaza, the the American Westward Expansion and Colonialism in general.

From ancient ruins created by Babylonian armies to mounds of debris from modern missiles, we humans insist on trying to destroy others, erase them from maps and consciousness. But as John Donne reminds us, we are all diminished by such efforts. The death bell tolls for us all.

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Mark C Still's avatar

Yup.

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