Monday, January 12, 2009

a good hard day.

i have lots of catching up to do bloggin wise but i thought i'd start with this tag i got from the dayton time.

the rulers:
1. go to your documents
2. go to your 6th file.
3. go to your 6th picture.
4. blog about it.
5. tag 6 friends to do the same.


this picture was taken this summer while i was in budapest. the river in this picture is the danube. this was a beautiful day that i will always remember. that day we went to the house of terror, a monument that is created in memory of all of the citizens of the city who died during the second world war and then in the soviet occupation. after the visit there we went to see the shoes on the danube monument. it was a very moving and a very difficult day for me. since i was a small child i have had a fear of the Nazi’s returning and have always struggled with a somewhat irrational fear of them returning to power overnight. i can remember living in the farm house when i was five years old (or so) laying in bed, and being able to hear my pulse in my ear and thinking that the sound i was hearing was the Nazi’s marching down the streets. i remember laying awake at night and thinking where i would hide my family in the event that they came back. in high school this fear was increased by being almost forced to watch schindler's list.

the day that we went to the house of terror i begged my professor to not make me go in; but he said that it is something that should at least experience as it was different than the holocaust museum in the states because it was on their soil. i cried the whole tour.

the amount of evil and hatred that was demonstrated during those years is something that i will never be able to understand. i will not be able to understand how it was tolerated for so long, allowed to escalade to the extent that i was and how it has happened again and again.

the day that i went to the danube was an experience that i will never forget, it is something that i am grateful that i experienced, it is something that i will never need to experience again.



since i do not have six people to tag i will tag those i know


the daniels 5

the mister


2 comments:

Scott McLean said...

Hi there, How are you? Your blog looks great! Take care.

Jill said...

what about my meme? loved this one will play along soon...