begging for eyes to bear witness...

Today is Holocaust Rememberance Day. You shoudl all take a minute to think and honor the lives of all 11 million victims of torture and cruelty which came as a result of conformity, and fear. These 11 million people were those that were considered deviant from society, not perfect, and for that, mothers, daughters, wives, brothers, sons, husbands, lovers, actors, engineers, musicians, children, grandparents, neighbors... ect. died. Denied the basic things we all take for granted today: cleanliness, food, space, water, the beauty of grass and sky, they perished in conditions more deliberatly inhumane than any other era in history. Mechanically, systematically gassed and burned by a hierarchy that functions solely to decimate, destroy, exterminate people. But this wasn't just a faceless enemy. Medical experments of twins, homosexuals, cripples were cruelly posed to see how much pain the human body could take, how much pressure could build up before one would explode, and many other horrific events. Psychological experments include family members chooseing which relatives to save, and which to kill, mothers forced to kill thier own babies in order to save themselves and others, fathers starving themselves so thier sons could have the smallest chance at survival. I'm not listing thes ethings to make you sad, or sick, the way I feel now, but rather to stress the importance of standing up for your own beliefs. Hundreds of rightous people not persecuted themselves risked death to save the comndemmed, many martyrs stood up in the Ghetto uprisings to make the statement that they will not willingly die. Lives were ricked to send information to the outside world. We can't forget the horror, nor the bravery. Never forget: it was humans juts like you and I that allowed this tragedy, this travesty, this blatent dehumanization to occur, yet it was also people: strong, brave, and moral, that saved the souls of humanity. Never forget.