It is such a terrible shame that the Holocaust Museum guard died because of that racist extremist. Why do people stew in their hate? And why must innocent, upstanding citizens die because of it?
He caught the shooter at the entrance to the museum which, they say, certainly saved many lives. Unfortunately, it cost him his own. Terribly, terribly sad.
I heard an interview on NPR of someone visiting the museum today. He said it was so incongruous to have violence in a place of memory and dignity. That just broke my heart.
I know it is just horrible, and the man who did the shooting is 88 years old. He was a World War II vet of all things, and thinks that the Holocaust isn't real. (How can a WW2, one that was in Europe and saw or knews someone who had seen the victims, the camps and the bodies basically right after it happened not belive in the Holocaust......God.) The KKK and their culture is like a virus all it does is corrupt and destroy. I am so sorry for the guard though, but he did a coureagus thing and saved many people. It seems America will take one step forward and then two steps back when dealing with racism. I live in the South, and this kinda of thing just makes it worse for all of us. And to top everything off, we were suppose to go on vacation to Washington. I live about fours away in VA, and know we might have to change our plans becuase of this.
Sorry to continue this, but we have a Holocaust Museum is Richmond, VA. One that was started by people who survived the Holocaust. I hope to God nothing will happen their. Their is actually more than few people who moved here and are involved or were involved in the local Jewish community. My father is Jewish, so my paternal grandparents knew more than a few people in their in their Synagogue who were surviors. I remember as a little girl seeing a numbered tattoo and asking why he had it. My Bubbie lost relatives, her uncle and his family to the Holocaust. I really want to go up to these people and ask it them if the Holocaust didn't happen. Then what the hell happened to my great great grand uncle and his family. AGHHHHH
The whole things not just horribly, horribly tragic, but way weird. Everything new little fact I hear seems to just makes it weirder.
I read that the gunman (who is older than my grandma!) is not only a natzi sympathizer and holocaust denier, but that he is a WWII vet. How the heck does that happen?
If he wasn't stationed in Germany (perhaps in the Pacific) then I suppose his being a WWII vet without having first-hand seen what the Nazis did could actually, in some sick way, be the way he justified his denial. Then again. Who knows. Who knows how anyone can justify that kind of hatred, racism, and violence. It's horrid.
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Date: 2009-06-13 12:06 am (UTC)And I'm so sorry that your Bubbie lost relatives to such horrid racism.
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Date: 2009-06-11 03:23 pm (UTC)I read that the gunman (who is older than my grandma!) is not only a natzi sympathizer and holocaust denier, but that he is a WWII vet. How the heck does that happen?
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