I know, it would be hideous, surely it could not come to that.
But as a kid born in the 50’s, my parents put on films/programmes every Sunday afternoon about WW11.
I was very young, but I became so distressed about the holocaust.
Watching the NAZI’s rounding the jews up, shooting them.
Transporting them in trains to the death camps, stripping them off, pushing them into gas chambers.
The ones which were spared were so emaciated, like skeletons.
I used to cry out WHY DOES NOBODY STOP THEM.
How can people be so cruel and turn the other cheek.
I have actually carried this trauma with me all of my life.
It is what has always driven me to stick up for the underdog.
Raise funds for causes.
I am scared as well, I have put my name on a public page even.
But “I would rather die standing on my feet, than live on my knees”
― Euripides.
They cannot kill us all. I read
