A year or two later, I took one of the photographs and cut the faces from it, made a star of David from popsicle sticks and glue, and glued the faces of my Zeidy and his family to it. Each year as I place this ornament on my tree, I remember a beloved friend and his murdered family, and I say a prayer of hope to God, that nobody will ever experience horrors of that sort ever again, that the monsters won't rise to power again and perpetuate the grand scale of hatred and violence that they once did. Then she took the star and she placed it in the place of honor on our tree, the one that had always been reserved for her most recent photo ornament, front and center. This belongs here, forever. Ornaments are more than decoration.
Ornaments are love and they are unity.
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