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It's a grizzly idea to listen to the dying laments of innocent civilians. Maybe it isn't enough. Americans, for the most part, are sheltered from the horrors of war. This idea can be, as one writer said, a "remember the Alamo!" sort of cry inciting more hate, but there is good to come of it. If all citizens of the world were forced to see and hear the real atrocities of war possibly we might find our stomachs turned and our minds open to solutions other than destruction. My 80 year old dad was a death camp liberator. It was a sobering sight for the German people to be marched through the camps to witness the negative power of the Nazi regime. Maybe we all need a dose of this reality.
