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⌈ Secret Post #211 ⌋

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Off to the Epik High concert! Have some emopuppy if you want → ♥

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Comments

Respecting and understanding, even.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

I get you, and I'm technically American, though the vast majority of my family is German (my mother's whole side; she married a GI). My mother won't even raise her right hand during Mass because it resembles the Nazi "heil" sign. I don't regret never asking my grandfather about the war because it would have been painful as hell for him to remember. He came home in '52 from a Polish POW camp and spent the rest of his life gardening.

And I have shouted people down for bad jokes ("the art in Paris was worth a Holocaust or two" = FAIL). I have insisted that the jerks around me keep quiet during Yom Hashoah ceremonies. I do this not only because anti-Semitism is wrong, but because I always feel I have something to atone for. I cried during an episode of "Battlestar Galactica" that looked a little too much like history, for frak's sake. Always, always, I'll remember, because this is what my country did, and no other country should ever be permitted to do it again.

For me, this is what it's like to be of German descent post-World War II.