An Update from the Road

[gimbleisdabomb]

I am currently in Washington DC, and trying to type this on a semi-dysfunctional keyboard, so please ignore me if there are spelling mistakes and other such problems. I haven't posted in a while, and last night spurred a thought of mine that I want to get out, so here goes

Comments

[emilynye]

Remember the words above Auschwitz following WWII... "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it"

steven, this is inaccurate. this is a quote from george santayana from well before either world war, and auschwitz's gates have the same cold iron words that were there when my grandmother walked through them, "arbeit macht frei"- work will make you free.
for more on this, this is an article from march in the european jewish press.

[emilynye]

"Fiction can be fun, but I find the reference section much more enlightening."
-Ace