Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuxl.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!orb
From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame
Subject: Re: The Shame of the President:the Last and Next Holocaust
Message-ID: <599@whuxl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 12:38:44 EST
Article-I.D.: whuxl.599
Posted: Tue Apr 23 12:38:44 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 24-Apr-85 03:37:03 EST
References: <410@ihlpg.UUCP> <8424@watarts.UUCP>
Distribution: net
Organization: /usr/exptools/lib/netnews/myorg
Lines: 32
Xref: watmath net.politics:8644 net.flame:9463

As much as I disagree with Ronald Reagan on almost anything
and everything that he comes up with, I am not sure that
I think it is such a horrible idea to honor dead German soldiers.
But I think it is terrible that Reagan originally planned to
pay no respects to the Jews massacred by the Nazis.....OR
to the innocent German civilians fried in Dresden.
 
This is what galls me: the soldiers are lauded while the innocent
civilians slaughtered by both sides are forgotten.
In this way we blind ourselves to the true horrors of war in the 
modern age.
 
While I feel we should remember the Nazi Holocaust the whole point
of Reagan's honoring of Nazi war dead is to smooth the path
for the next Holocaust: which will make no discriminations as to
race, creed, color, or sex and ,if the Nuclear Winter hypothesis is
correct, precious little to national origins.
 
I believe that part of the intensity of opposition among many of
the German people to the placement of Pershing and cruise missiles
is the remembrance of German complicity in the last Holocaust.
Many Germans do not want to be guilty of such complicity in
possibly bringing about the next Holocaust.
 
Knowing this, the last thing Ronnie RayGuns wants to do is remind the
Germans of their guilt in the last great War.
This might only serve to inspire their resolve not to be willing 
puppets for preparations for the next Holocaust.
 
            tim sevener   whuxl!orb