shouting our feelings and screaming our emotions.
While this, momentarily, may release the anger,
after a while, the effect is lost and falls on deaf ears.
I was watching a program on the Shoah Foundation,
(very interesting if you'd like to research it),
in which Holocaust survivors are interviewed
and recorded to become interactive voices from the past.
Two statements that really hit home -
specifically in today's world -
were these:
Question: What would you like to say to any Nazi's or war criminals?
Answer: I would like to absolve them and forgive them.
Question: Do you hate the Nazi's and their families?
Answer: Most of the Nazi's are dead. What am I going to do -
hate their children and grandchildren? They didn't do anything.
Both had been back to their internment camps.
I believe both had lost their entire families to those camps.
The past is not always beautiful,
but that doesn't mean that we can't be.
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