Word of the day

Bizarrerie – a thing considered extremely strange and unusual, especially in an amusing way; a bizarre quality;  something bizarre.

Sowell says

There is no greater indictment of judges than the fact that honest people are afraid to go into court, while criminals swagger out its revolving doors.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 30, 2024

Woman of the day

Woman of the Day WW1 ambulance driver Sadie Bonnell born OTD in 1888 in Kew, Surrey, one of the first women to be awarded the Military Medal for gallantry and conspicuous devotion to duty after she came under heavy fire while collecting wounded soldiers from a dressing station… pic.twitter.com/bNK7yk9wZK

— The Attagirls (@TheAttagirls) June 4, 2024

What happened to never again?

The  Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial has graves of more than 9,000  soldiers, most of whom were killed on D Day, the 80th anniversary of which was marked yesterday.

Scattered among the crosses which stand in memory to those who died are Stars of David.

None of the men who were buried there would have known about the holocaust. They were fighting to free Europe from the Nazis without knowing about the concentration camps and their horrors.

It was months later that Allied soldiers reached the concentration camps and the phrase never again was uttered by the people liberated from Buchenwald.

What’s happened to never again? 

Populations of groups of people have been subject to atrocities in several countries, wars have been waged, atrocities are still being committed, wars are still being waged and anti-semitism is  rife.

I cannot understand how people can hate a whole group of people and act to wipe them from the face of the earth.

Never again has been forgotten by some and ignored by others.

Eighty years on from the deaths of those men who were fighting to free Europe, hatred and the evil acts it fosters continue.

What will it take to change that so that never again is not a slogan but a fact?