Word: holocaustic
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...down evidence of mass horrors; the initial thought with Columbine High School was to obliterate the school and start anew--America's old, insistent, forward-looking impulse. Now there are plans to create a permanent memorial in a park alongside the school. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington consecrate ordinary people and offer places where ordinary people can reach a personal understanding...
...memorials, "the memory of the event will be as transforming as the event itself and as humanizing as the event was dehumanizing." In the case of Oklahoma City, one of the memorial's purposes is "to teach us to be the antithesis of what is portrayed." Similarly, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (on which Oklahoma City is modeled), the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the American Immigrant Wall of Honor at Ellis Island, the battlefield sites of Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, Little Big Horn and others are teaching institutions, telling the story of the event by means of videos, texts...
...government, but that is what conservative governments--anywhere--tend to do. The concentration camp in Mauthausen is not going to be activated again, Hitler will not receive a memorial in Vienna, nor will any government agency order to burn books or censor teaching material describing the atrocities of the Holocaust. Politicians like Haider should not be allowed to govern an idyllic country in the heart of Europe, but this is for the people to decide, not for foreign governments with good intentions who end up worsening the situation even more...
DOOMSDAY PREDICTION Y2K, the millennium bug, would cause financial chaos or nuclear holocaust...
...course! That is what Mother Night is about. The main character keeps saying, while he describes his actions, "That is not really me." So many Germans said the exact same things after WWII and the Holocaust. "That wasn...