Not a huge and deep thing I need to sort out, but I have to express some discomfort.  Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day.  One family I saw mentioned it. But today was Earth Day and everywhere I go online and everywhere I look people are talking about Earth Day.

Now, I’m into conservation and moving towards self sustainability and recycling, etc.  My dd wanted to turn the lights all off for 1 minute so *shrug* we did.  I’m not downing on Earth Day.

My concern is that we live in a world that wants to forget the Holocaust.  We have a day implemented for remembering it and people forget to remember.  That is sad to me. DH is friends with the teacher at the High School where he works who had the responsibility to choose next year’s history books.  He chose the only one with an actual section on the Holocaust (out of 4 options).  Based on the way that history is handled at the school my guess is they will spend a day on it during 4 years of high school–and only because this book has a section on it. Without that they may not have spent any time at all on it.

Mostly it is sad to me because of one of my fundamental beliefs–those who do not study and learn from the past are destined to repeat it.  If we forget the Holocaust we will not be learning from it and we will be destined to repeat it.