Reply #80: I have studied the rise of Hitler and am proud to be related to a man who

[JohnOneillsMemory]

helped prosecute Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials.

My father's family is Jewish and some of my mother's family dropped what they were doing to join up and fight the Nazis as soon as they heard about them during WWII.

My mother (college history professor) was one of the Freedom Riders that went down south to help register black voters in 1960. She imbued me with a strong sense of civic justice and a perspective on how civilization has evolved and how government, religion, and technology have shaped the events that affect our values.

The single most formative event in my life happened when I was six years old. A friend showed me his father's WWII photo album from being one of the first GIs to liberate the Nazi concentration camps. I will never forget seeing photos of skeletal people stacked like cord wood.

I am keenly aware that that level of dehumanization can happen anywhere including in the US. I started protesting against immoral US government actions as a 7 year old in 1968 when I marched against the Vietnam War. I'm now 43 with 36 years of study with which to base my views.

I have traveled all of the US, Europe, and much of the Caribbean and Mediterranean and have some empirical data on cultural attitudes.

I have studied history, psychology, sociology, journalism, politics, and linguistics to understand my own very complex yet understandable species. I spend 3-8 hours a day reading and writing on comtemporary history.

Your venomous personal attacks on me and my morality "as a Jew and American" indicates either extreme youth or perhaps intoxification.

How old are you and what is your reference for comparing Germany between the wars and post-Vietnam America? Merely being Jewish?

Do more reading and less spitting. You'll feel better, I assure you.