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Years have passed.. I am not alive to bear witness.. people should never be stripped of the dignity that they are human and like anyone else born has the right to breathe the air I do.. the truth is it happened.. Ignorance is bliss they say.. it can never happen here.. The truth is it can.. Are we so blind to see? the riots in the last century? It's not about who... it's about what.. Are you a Negro, are you a Jew.. are you a Spic.. are you a Witch.. are you Gay..are you etc..? Words that roll off tongues so easily.. Ignorance can only cause demise.. the human race has proved it.. Prejudices that are learned.. children reflect their parent's ways.. they never knew that someone was different.. until told so.. We need to remember for the future.. that nothing is sacred.. The holocaust was horrific.. and it proved the last point.. 6 million Jews, 1.5 million Children 2-3 million Catholics, homosexuals, and disabled were lost... People who could have been the future to have made the world a better place lost.. our extinction resides on our prejudices.. and our beliefs can destroy us all.. We can never forget.. and unite to fight ignorance.. for we are the human race.. and divided we fall..

by:
Ines Marie Jimenez
Pembroke Pines, FLUniversity of Miami
Majoring in Human Resource Management, April, 1999
She writes, "It's my tribute to those who lost their lives now almost 50 years ago
in World War II, something I feel really strongly about."

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