Saying "Never Again" Is Not Enough

Today isn't just the last Monday of the first month of the first year of the third decade of the twenty-first century, though it is most certainly ALL of that. 

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Soviet Red Army as Hitler's Nazi Germany and its delusions of Aryan supremacy were hammered into oblivion and smashed to bits.

But the liberation of Auschwitz and all the other death factories did not happen before the Nazi network of work camps for those deemed undesirable to include (but not limited to) Jews, gypsies, persons with physical and mental disabilities, Poles, Russians, as well as communists, socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals, estimated to exceed twenty million people, had been murdered.

Everyone's shadow is the same color, everywhere and always but too often we choose to forget that. Making "Never Again" a reality takes all of us every day.

-bill kenny