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Linda Nacif's avatar

Dear Charles, once upon a time there was a group of Christians ( about 24,000) from 1939-1945, who witnessed the worst of humanity. They consciously chose to risk their lives, the lives of their families and friends and everything they had, to save the Jews who were being slaughtered in a systemic and government approved genocide. They were and are called the Righteous. There was nothing different or special about them. They came from everywhere in Europe and all walks of life. These Righteous Among Nations only had one thing in common: they knew the difference between right and wrong. It’s they who have given me hope to carry on and even teach the horrors of modern humanity in a museum of the Holocaust. And you, young man, not only give me hope, but probably saved the life during the recent pandemic of this almost 80 yr old woman. It was one word that kept me from putting my life in danger; it was one word that I myself couldn’t come up with when I intuitively knew getting the jab was wrong. And that word was DISSENT. Thank you for that word and for possibly saving my life. And of course, thank you for being one of the modern day Righteous.

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"When one awakens to it, it seems so monstrous, so inconceivable, so intolerable that one cannot understand how others so readily accept it as normal. The result is a profound sense of alienation." I daresay this is exactly how so many of us felt, and may still be feeling. Thank you that all of us are likely feeling less alien because of your work.

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