@ToolGuy In the holocaust not only Jews perished but a lot of ordinary Germans, Poles, French and other nationalities. If we have a remembrance day for one group we should have it for others too.

@ToolGuy You were fine. Sometimes we just write things so fast and don't always pay attention. I know I do it. Take care.

@SaucyCheryl Not quite the same though. Memorial Day or Decoration Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces. This has to do with as you see serving in the country's armed forces. Nothing to do with atrocities around the world that a lot of time soldiers have done.

And yet it got little air time on the media

@Beowulfsfriend surprised Trump didn't tweet about all the good people lost on both sides.

Over 60 million people were killed during World War II, which was over 3% of the world's population at the time. 22 to 25 million of those people were soldiers, including 5 million who died in captivity as prisoners of war.
en.wikipedia.org/...com/World_War_II_casualties
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

@Beowulfsfriend my bad on the total was relying on memory. Still the numbers don't work. That would equate to approx 2 years of silence?

@JazznBlues Starvation and bombs. Russia lost over 20 million alone. Russia dropped a fifth of their population.

@Beowulfsfriend 362,664,000 is 11.5 years of silence. Guessing that many people didn't die in the 1940's. That would be 1/7th of the world population in 1944.

@Beowulfsfriend sorry but I'm anal about accuracy. Don't like false claims, even for a good cause. Watering the truth down hurts causes always.

And 17 million were killed in WWI
50 million by the damn flu in 1917.

50 million.

Just realized this is exactly why I'm atheist. I question things that don't add up.

Meme didnt say how many seconds a "moment " was..

Sitting in front of sobbing old men remembering freeing people from camps when they were boys.

They knew why they were sent to war.

It is a shame on the species of homo sapiens ☹

@LenHazell53 yes it is..as is the genocide we committed against Native Americans.

@Charlene as were The extirpation of the Cathars, the anabaptist, the Albigensian Crusade the pan European slaughter of the "witches", the heretic burning of the Gnostics, Rawanda, Cambodia, Bosnia

Human beings have an endless appetite for extermination of their own based on tiny but to them unacceptable differences, birth place, political and religious ideology, skin colour and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This species stinks.

@LenHazell53 indeed..

@K9Kohle789 Tell that to the Palestinian people who have been kicked of their farms to make way for European Jewish settlers.

@K9Kohle789 pack your bags, you are moving. The Seminole Indians are getting their land back.

@K9Kohle789 "but it's not as cruel as what happened to me" is a child's argument.

@K9Kohle789 I may not be an expert on this area but I do know some things. According to some history "In 1947, the United Nations (UN) adopted a Partition Plan for Palestine recommending the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states and an internationalized Jerusalem." As far as I remember the Jewish community had no real homeland and, because of the holocaust Palestine was to be shared with the Jews. Wars ensued over the division of the land and because of the power of Israel they won. However, this still does not give them the right to bully and push the indigenous people off their land and out of their homes. We talk about this country being a land of immigrants when in reality there was already a aboriginal group here already and the immigrants practiced genocide to steal it away from the natives. Likewise with the SW which once belonged to Spain (who also took the land away from natives). The Mexicans allowed US settlers in in order to develop the land and, we in turn, took it away from Mexico. Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and the Alamo were not the heroes but the villains. It seems this is the normal way we acquire land but it still doesn't make it right. Right now Israel is the bad guy and many Jews (a few friends of mine included) are deeply ashamed of what is happening there.

@K9Kohle789 Unfortunately, to me this sounds like the NRA saying they will never make the mistakes the tobacco industry did. Take the high road and don't let anything as truth or human rights get in the way. If some actions are wrong they are wrong. This reminds me of the adage, my tribe, right or wrong.