On this Veterans Day here is moving story: WW II vet held in Nazi slave camp breaks silence: 'Let it be known'
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
A Moving Story on Veterans Day
On this Veterans Day here is moving story: WW II vet held in Nazi slave camp breaks silence: 'Let it be known'
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Man, I'm not even halfway through this article, and already, my eyes are welling up with tears. I am outraged at the fact that the U.S. government took *FIFTY YEARS* to give this man full disability benefits! (I have a disability, so this hits especially close to home.)
The way that the man's father treated him after the war is also so sad. So very sad. I know that men in general were commonly much less emotional in that time than we are encouraged to be today, but still... that father's son is anything *but* a "coward."
I just finished the article. I'm sorry for being so ubiquitous today (and on other days, lol) with my comments here, but I have to say this-- younger people (including myself), *please* know that elderly people can often be incredible treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Even more importantly, they are made in the image of God, just as you are. Please show a general respect and love for elderly people. This is especially important in our churches, as an expression of love and as a witness to an American culture that despises aging.
If we think that people have it bad in the U.S. today, we need to seriously meditate on what the man in this article endured. A visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. might also help. When I went, it was one of the most chilling, sobering experiences of my life, but it also helped to give me a *much-needed* perspective on my own suffering.
The ever-true words of Corrie Ten Boom, Christian survivor of the Holocaust, who lost her entire family to it-- "There is no pit so deep but Christ is deeper still."
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