Memoirous

Continuing on themes of the 21 st century—has anyone else thought about the irony: Trainloads of humanity stuffed into railway cars trying desperately to get INTO Germany.  Let this be a lesson to the 20 th century self who thought people can’t change, that countries are evil, that the world is hopeless. I’m sure it felt that way 100 years ago in the trenches and 70 years ago in the camps. Forgiveness is never cheap or easy. But here is a nation leading other nations to open their borders and accept others not like them but like them in so many other ways. Humanity washed ashore. I don’t need to post the picture of the little 3-yr old boy face down in the surf, on the coast of Turkey to tell you all of our hearts have to change. After Kristallnacht German Jews were desperate to get out, to flee what might not at first seemed like a crisis. No one ever thought it was going to get too bad. They weren’t at first asylum-seekers, but they knew that some...