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Posted on February 28, 2006 at 09:41 AM | Permalink
Review of Story Corps Fundrasier Piece 3
GREAT FIND! TOUCHING STORY! WONDERFUL CONTRIBUTION!
This senior's story not only sends several messages that are good for the public to hear. (And, the tie in of contritubutions at pledge time was done with great finesse.) Here are some of the messages I heard between the lines that are good for people to be inspired to think about.
One, that Hitler will be accountable for so many lives -- young and old, and even his own wonderful young people like the one that the senior American mentioned in your featured that he had to kill.
Two, there are senior Americans still living in this country who not only risked their lives in WW2 so that the rest of us might continue to have a free country in which to live. And, more. The price that some of these people paid did not end when the war ended in 1945. Some of them continue to be haunted even today, and night after night, by the real horrors of war.
I have to close this with a question or two in regard to the senior who spoke and provided such a rare and priceless contribution that helped to make this a most-distinguished promotional piece. My questions (rhetorical) are these.
How many of us are paying our contribution in the form of appreciation and thanks to these elder, senior citizens of our country who are sometimes suffering loneliness in their older years now -- who are rarely given a hug or a thank you for what they did so that we could have the freedom in our lives that we are so blessed to have today. Do we not owe them at least a showing of some real gratitude and great respect! -- not to mention some empathy and understanding of the costly sacrifices many of them made without complaint for us.