Holocaust Survivor Books it Out of the US - "I've Seen This Before"

fearless_fx · Jul 3, 2007

One of our neighbors is moving. I've been in this neighborhood for about six years now, but didn't really know them very well at all - just waves and nods, mostly.

So I heard the moving van pull up this morning. When I got home this evening I happened to spy my neighbor (he's like 85 years old - I don't know exactly, but he's old, talks and moves very slowly) standing on the sidewalk next to the van. I walked over and shook his hand, and we started talking. I asked him where he was moving, and he said, "Back to Germany."

I had been stationed in Germany for two years while in the military, so I lit up, and commented about how beautiful the country was, and inquired if he was going back because he missed it.

"No," he answered me. "I'm going back because I've seen this before." He then commenced to explain that when he was a kid, he watched with his family in fear as Hitler's government committed atrocity after atrocity, and no one was willing to say anything. He said the news refused to question the government, and the ones who did were not in the newspaper business much longer. He said good neighbors, people he had known all his life, turned against his family and other Jews, grabbing on to the hate and superiority "as if they were starved for it" (his words).

He said he was too old to see it happen right in front of his eyes again, and too old to do anything about it, so he was taking his family back to Europe on Thursday where they would be safe from George W. Bush and his neocons. He seemed resolute, but troubled, nonetheless, as if being too young on one end and too old on the other to fight what he saw happening was wearing on him.

I gotta tell you - it was chilling. I let him talk, and the whole time, my gut was churning, like I had mutated butterflies in my stomach. When he was finished, he shook my hand, gripping it really hard, until his knuckles turned white and he was shaking. He looked me in the eyes, hard, and said, "I will pray for your family and your country." He let go of my hand and hobbled away.

I have related this event to you in the hopes it will serve as a cautionary anecdote about the state of our Union, and to illustrate the path we Americans are being led down by a group of fanatics bent on global economic and military dominion. When a man who survived the fruits of fascism decides its time to leave THIS country because he's seeing the same patterns that led to the Holocaust and other Nazi horrors beginning to form here, it is time for us to recognize the underlying evil inherent in the actions of those who claim they work for all Americans, and for all mankind. And it is incumbent upon all Americans, Red and Blue, Republican and Democrat, to stop them.
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hmmmm... early warning of things to come perhaps

khaotic · Jul 3, 2007

Wow... I don't think its that bad yet....

Veincentury · Jul 3, 2007

lol, so true in some aspect yet so not true in others. Americans need to start voting in order to get rid of these neo conservatives and their WASP ways.

wind2000 · Jul 4, 2007

Ironic how he moved from Germany to US and then back looking to escape the fanatic regimes...

Taxloss · Jul 4, 2007

Hmm, can't really judge the situation in the US but sometimes I do get the idea there are a lot of the scary WASPS and KKK types (recent reports showed they get more and more members) and I recall that youtube vid about a Mexican (?) filming a demonstrating and hostile crowd that wanted the illegals to get out of their country, accusing them to steal their jobs and only profiting from the government money.

Holocaust Survivor Books it Out of the US - "I've Seen This Before"

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