December 3, 2010

December 3's post is a little more solemn...

This is another thing that may seem a bit weird to be thankful for, but that won't stop me.

I'm thankful for places like the Holocaust Museum, and for the people who run them.

It was so hard for me to walk through the 4 floors of that museum, seeing pictures of millions of people, suffering as not many people will ever see in their lifetime...seeing little figurines portraying the way that 6 million people died during the Holocaust...seeing pictures painted by the children who lived in death camps, walking through a train car that held real prisoners, walking on cobblestone streets transported from the real ghetto of Warsaw...and knowing that the whole thing could have been prevented...was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I couldn't even cry.

And because of all of that... I am thankful for the people who organized that museum. Who spent tons of time and money building it. The people who are taking such huge measures to make sure that people are educated. To make sure that people today are aware of what's happening in places like Darfur...to make sure that it WON'T happen again. That museum is so eye opening. And that's why I'm thankful for it...because I know that I'm not the only one who wants to keep something like the holocaust from happening again.