Hope for the Country
May 29th, 2008
This kind of thing makes me feel better about the country’s future.
UPDATE: On a more serious note:
Concerning the service of Mr. Charles Payne: C.T. Payne was a soldier in the 89th Infantry Division. He served in the 355th Infantry Regiment, Company K. The 355th Infantry Regiment was the unit to liberate Ohrdruf. Mr. Payne was there.
For those who seek to minimize the horrors of Ohrdruf since it was a ‘work’ camp and not a ‘death’ camp, we have but one word: shame. Ironically, this argument has been made to us time and time again by various Holocaust-deniers and other pro-Nazi groups. We will let the testimony of survivors and veterans speak for themselves.
It has been recorded that in Ordruf itself the last days were a slaughterhouse. We were shot at, beaten and molested. At every turn went on the destruction of the remaining inmates. Indiscriminant criminal behavior (like the murderers of Oklahoma City some days ago). Some days before the first Americans appeared at the gates of Ordruf, the last retreating Nazi guards managed to execute with hand pistols, literally emptying their last bullets on whomever they encountered leaving them bleeding to death as testified by an American of the 37th Tank Battalion Medical section, 10 a.m. April 4, 1945.
Today I’m privileged thanks to G-d and you gallant fighting men. I’m here to reminisce, and reflect, and experience instant recollections of those moments. Those horrible scenes and that special instance when an Allied soldier outstretched his arm to help me up became my re-entrance, my being re-invited into humanity and restoring my inalienable right to a dignified existence as a human being and as a Jew. Something, which was denied me from September 1939 to the day of liberation in 1945. I had no right to live and survived, out of 80 members of my family, the infernal ordeal of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Ordruf, and its satellite camp Crawinkle and finally Theresinstadt Ghetto-Concentration Camp.
Rabbi Murray Kohn
Nice company these fools keep, eh? There are literally no depths to which these people will not sink. They attack war heroes and little boys and rescuers of Nazi victims indiscriminately, all for the “crime” of not agreeing with them. They — and the people they imitate, the Limbaughs and the Malkins and the Swift Vote Boat Vets and the Karl-whispering-campaign-Roves — are terrible, broken people. There is no space in their mind for the concept of differing opinions, or live and let live, or agree to disagree. Anyone differing from them in the slightest is the greatest evil the world has known and must be completely and utterly destroyed. It is as cowardly as it is pathological. Sometimes it seems as if almost the entire GOP blogosphere is nothing more than the faint click of marbles and the distant odor of strawberries.
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