As far as 'never again' goes .... I grew up in the immediate post war years and took that as a given. Then along came Pol Pot in Cambodia. In more recent years the genocide in Rwanda. Of course Hitler's genocide was mechanized and surpassed any before or since in sheer numbers. I've read that Stalin killed even more but I don't know if that is accurate.

As for the kids today, watch "Pulp Fiction" with its glorifying of violence. Entertainment featuring murder, homosexual sodomy, a scene in which a man is shot accidentally, spattering his brains all over the interior of an automobile, is added for comic relief. They say a society can be judged by its art. I use the phrase loosely. In "Silence Of The Lambs" a serial killer is portrayed as an attractive character. A sequel is made in which he is the featured character and again is portrayed in a heroic manner. Is it any wonder that we have what we have in this country today ?


Written in 1784 by poet Robert Burns;

Man was made to mourn: A Dirge ;

Many and sharp the num'rous ills
Inwoven with our frame!
More pointed still we make ourselves
Regret, remorse, and shame!
And man, whose heav'n-erected face
The smiles of love adorn, -
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!