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What I DIDN"T do on Memorial Day!!! (history topic)

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vanlee
Jun 06 2005
01:29 pm

I didn’t spend this Memorial day—-
running guns into my dictator occupied country—-
and neither did my brother or nephew,or nieces or cousins, or uncles or father, or good friends.

I didn’t hide in terror while the occupying forces shot up the door of my grandmother’s childhood home—-just for laughs.

I didn’t worry about the occupying authorities finding the pilot I had hidden in my home.

I didn’t wonder if I could get my friend’s Jewish child into a safe house and out of the country.

I didn’t have to wonder if the occupying force will soon go after & try to seduce my teenage daughter
…and use her to breed the so called “master” race, and put her in a special birthing home where they could whisk my grandchild off to a new adoptive home …where I would never see him or her again.

I didn’t worry about someone closing my church and sending my minister to Siberia or some other nasty gulag or concentration camp.

I didn’t worry that my children would be indoctrinated to NOt believe in God…and to report me to the authorities for my beliefs.

I didn’t worry that my father, brother, cousins, nephews or nieces, or myself or my children would be siezed and tortured, thrown into a concentration camp and possibly killed because we fought against the occupying forces…

didn’t sit and dream of a fun, peaceful day where I can go to picnics, have fun, read my Jewish book (aka the Bible), raise both a white & a biracial child in peace…

.No I didn’t dream those things…

I actually [u:2ce002e5c4]did[/u:2ce002e5c4] them (these fun, peaceful activities of a free citizen) this past Memorial day. [/b:2ce002e5c4] I imagined the life of relatives, friends, others who suffered all the indignities and dangers above in other countries earlier this century, in the 2 great socialist dictatorships of Communism and Naziism,

more alike than different…both grotesquely oppressive, both executing millions upon millions of innocents.

I also thank God for all the military who fought & conquered and even died so we could just have…

a fun day, in peace.[/i:2ce002e5c4]