In an Ever changing world...

It is hard to believe that this year is marked as the 65th anniversary of D Day. A day that plays such a significant part of our world history, and yet it is a day that many are still not fully educated on. World War 2 is important to me due to the roles that my grandparents played, but more importantly, my interest lies in the injustice that marked so many years in history.

Yesterday I attended an exhibit honoring the photography of Ira Nowinski who has pictures from Holocaust memorials throughout the world. The photography is stunning...and in some many cases left me speechless. I was listening to a conversation between mother and daughter as the mother was reading the caption beneath the picture of the gallows. The little girl was confused that someone could do that to another human being. Her question of "Why?" echoed through the hallway and everyone looked around to her...without answers. Hatred, genocide, and racial prejudice still, very much, exists in the world today and as history has proven so many times, it has a tendency to repeat itself.

We have to continue to educate the youth of today. It could have easily been any of us thrown into a concentration camp, witness the deaths of tens of thousands, and wondering the same thing, why? I tried to imagine what life would have been like trapped behind barbed wire, afraid for my survival every second of every day and I can't even imagine what it must have been like. The life that I once knew...no longer existed.

I am helping the FSU PC Campus plan an event on campus for Holocaust Rememberance Day, and while it is for one day is it truly enough to remember the many lives lost to hatred?