Never forget

Rating: 10/10 (21 April 2009)

When I was about 12, I saw Exodus for the first time. During the last 20 minutes I was almost hysterical. How could they do this to people who'd never done anything to deserve it, I asked my mother. She had no answer, except to say that we shouldn't forget that it happened so that it wouldn't happen again.
Many years later, Schindler's List came out, many, many years later. Although I wasn't hysterical this time, I cried throughout the film and again asked the same question: How could "they" do this to people who'd never harmed anyone? This time, there was no one to answer my question because there is no answer.
The problem is -- we keep forgetting. In Afghanistan, Darfur, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Haiti, throughout the world and throughout the centuries. We teach our children to hate people who have different religions, different types of faces, even different economic stations.
Schindler's List, and the other films of its kind, should be watched regularly by everyone. Oskar Schindler and the other "righteous men," no mater what their sex, must be held up as examples to everyone, and and everyone should do what they can to emulate them every day, every hour and every minute.
Oh! The spoiler -- 6 millions Jews and 8 million other people were killed by the Germans in World War II. Stalin killed 20 million, and millions more are being killed all over the world.