Auschwitz

Wednesday.

It's a sobering thought that during the first six months of my life, between 400,000 and 500,000 Hungarian Jews were gassed at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. There are photographs of the camp here.

The Atomic Bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki just after my first birthday.

Today I read that mass suicide bids at Guantanamo Bay were dismissed as only a gesture, that the Bush administration will need $80 billion more to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and that Israel has agreed to suspend the targeted killings of Palestinian militants.

Somewhere in between came Civil Rights and Vietnam.

Reassuring isn't it.