An Unusual Sunday Post - The Axe Forgets; the Tree Remembers - Real Life

[engarian]

The Axe Forgets but the Tree Remembers - Ukraine and Poland

The missiles and the bombs continue to fall. The spokespeople speak, the newscasters analyze, and the pundits make statements to claim their ten minutes of fame accumulated over multiple sound bites. The photographers have it harder - their documents and fame require in-person experience

Comments

[aearwen2]

What is there to say but, "Yup. This."

Well done.

Consider yourself hugged VERY tightly.

[engarian]

Thanks, my dear friend. It's the other side of the mirror for me, when I think of Ukraine and Poland.

- Erulisse (one L)

[seaivy]

my heart is with you!!
it's not personal for me but images still haunt me
i feel the pain in those photos

the wife of an associate was the daughter of holocaust
survivors and lost family

how can we ever forget?
it was not so long ago
there are those of us - young though we might have been - who remember it as it was present to us
and the photos make what we have only childhood memories of adult talk very real

how can Europe in particular forget?

[engarian]

Europe (as most people and areas) practices selective blindness. It's a survival mechanism that comes into play for people and for governments. Not good, but understandable.

- Erulisse (one L)

[adoptedwriter]

Hugs. What’s going on is horrifying. We are sadly reliving much of the past only with more technology which is extra scary.

[engarian]

True that. The extra scary part too.

- Erulisse (one L)

[marlawentmad]

Thank you for writing about that family history. The past and present often seem too close to comfort.

[engarian]

When it comes to these nations, they merge in my mind. I can't hear one without hearing the whispers of the other.

- Erulisse (one L)