4. Connection Across Time

     Looking back to the time of World War II we can see the horrors and devastation of the Holocaust. Just the title "Holocaust" is enough to silence a room and bring terrible images to everyone's minds. The truth is that the Holocaust was indeed as terrible as everyone sees it. It was genocide, and it got progressively worse. Now why do people make such a big deal of teaching this in schools, why have we learned about this event countless times through out my career as a student? A dramatic and necessary attempt at the prevention of history repeating itself. 

     Unfortunately, there have already been denials. People have been bold enough to DENY the killing of six million Jews. That is not even including the killing of gypsies, Poles, Russians, Homosexuals, the insane, the disabled, or the incurably ill. All of this has been denied to have happened. The real trouble, however lies with the fact that history is repeating itself; repeating itself today. The connection to today lies within Bangladesh, Cambodia, Timor, Guatemala, Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur, and more. Genocide has been seen in all of these places; today. 

     The real question is: How long will we turn our heads and pretend the problems of the world will work themselves out? The answer lies within you.

DARFUR