Never forget, Never Forgive.

 

How do Americans feel about Zionism, antisemitism, and Israel?

Okay, this doesn’t necessarily meet the provided criterion for our Blog Post, ergo it's not recent news. As a matter of fact, my motivation is section 5.2.3. Sure, there have been innumerable genocidal actions recorded throughout history the Holocaust is most memorable. I'd been told to "Never Forget" (the Holocaust) - my grandmother had told us grandkids, way  back in the 70's (there may have been some T.V. show which provoked her comment). The version of this my childhood friend Tom had been told differed with the addition of: "Never Forgive." 

In reading 5.2.3 Genocides, I recall when the Nazi Party of America received a license authorizing them to parade in Skokie, Ill (a Chicago suburb with one of the highest concentrations of Holocaust survivors in America) and the numbers tattooed on the forearm Tom’s grandmother’s. My childhood approbation thus rearose (as it increasingly has in recent years) and I feel the need to assert that there is a reason we'd been told these things. My friend Tom's grandmother somehow survived Auschwitz-Birkenau while grandpa Montgomery had arrived in Germany as a member of the 3rd Armored Calvary Regiment, which had recently been liberated by our Russian allies in the closing days of the European Campaign. As one of the colored troops my grandfather assisted the internment bodies (The Rev. - grandpa (Rev. Montgomery)) never spoke about the war though a [not exactly] black & white picture of him - in uniform - hung on their living room wall.

So, this is my not exactly kapeesh blog post; long story short – “Never forget, Never Forgive.”