Comments on: Honoring the righteous https://www.yourish.com/2007/10/26/3894 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:18:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Michael Lonie https://www.yourish.com/2007/10/26/3894/comment-page-1#comment-29368 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:18:55 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/26/3894#comment-29368 It does, doesn’t it?

In some extenuation of the appeasers of the 1930s they thought they were preventing another WWI, and that nothing they could imagine could be worse than another one of those. They were not imaginative enough. They also did not know how it would come out. We know how it came out, so we have no such excuse.

Tryng to appease the unappeasable, like the Pharaohs of Tehran, is futile and stupid.

]]> By: Bob https://www.yourish.com/2007/10/26/3894/comment-page-1#comment-29365 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:18:30 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/26/3894#comment-29365 How soon the free world forgets. Why must the Neville Chamberlains always give us opportunity to display such heroism? Sometimes it seems like 1938 all over again.

]]> By: Michael Lonie https://www.yourish.com/2007/10/26/3894/comment-page-1#comment-29359 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:08:05 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/26/3894#comment-29359 What noble, courageous people. Imagine living for three years or more with the stress of knowing that discovery meant death, probably for your whole family.

The Dutch were very short of food during the war, and it was controlled by the Nazis. In 1944-1945 they went through the “Hunger Winter” where many Dutch died from malnutrition or outright starvation. The people hiding the Jews had not only to hide them or ocme up with an excuse for having them around that would pass muster with the Nazis, they also had to feed them. This is not a small point; think about how grouchy one gets on a diet. The Dutch were starving.

Nobility, courage, selflessness, they deserve recognition.

]]> By: Jason https://www.yourish.com/2007/10/26/3894/comment-page-1#comment-29357 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:57:16 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/26/3894#comment-29357 I found your blog through olehmichael. I enjoyed looking around. I’ll be back to visit soon.

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