Late morning. You are waiting on the furnace
technician to come fix the heat pump, and also you are waiting for your hair
cutting appointment with Mary Ann at Great Clips within a half hour or so. Jean
N. L. of your high school class sent you a note:
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Irena Sendler (
Died: May 12,
2008 (aged 98)
Warsaw , Poland
During WWII,
Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer
specialist. She had an ulterior motive.
Irena smuggled
Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried. She also carried
a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids.
Irena kept a
dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and
out of the ghetto. The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog
and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.
During her time
of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. Ultimately,
she was caught, however, and the Nazis broke both of her legs and arms and beat
her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled
out of the ghetto in a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard.
After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and
tried to reunite the family. Most had been gassed and the children she helped
got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
In 2007 Irena
was up for the Nobel Peace Prize.
She was not
selected.
In MEMORIAM -
65 YEARS LATER
It is now more
than 65 years since the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being
sent as a memorial chain, In memory of the six million Jews, 20 million
Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were
murdered, massacred.
Irena
Sendler
1910-2008
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1131
hours. I have done so, Amorella. But I do not know that these are the facts.
1454 hours. I checked the story (wwwDOTtruthorfiction)
and it is factual. She was imprisoned and the Underground bribed a guard so she
could escape. She stayed hidden until after the war.
Post. - Amorella
2026 hours. I’m just tired of getting twenty miles to the gallon driving
around town. I know the idea is not a rational one because with the fuel prices
down it makes less difference that we are getting twenty.
Mid-afternoon. You are perplexed as to why I
would suggest you post the above on Irena Sendlerowa. You find it awkward to
send on such things/announcements sent by other in good faith that you will
continue them on to others (even when they prove to be true as this is). Why is
that? – Amorella
1523 hours. I think it is my reclusive nature. I
do not wish to present myself as an obligation on anyone else. It makes me
uncomfortable as if I were promoting or selling something. I am not a
cheerleader for any cause. – rho
Yet you write and publish books. – Amorella
1526 hours. Fiction and book notes.
It would seem that as you once thought I was
an Angel you would have promoted G---D during those days in the late eighties.
– Amorella
1529 hours. It is blasphemous to me personally
to think I should add a voice to the chorus. If G---D exists, G---D will do as
G---D will do. Besides, the sense of speaking for G---D brings forth pride and
arrogance (I would imagine) and I don’t need that kind of pride or arrogance.
Basically, I don’t have it in my heart to speak for G---D. I really don’t. Life
(being human) is humbling enough as is. Others will do as they wish but it is
not my cup of tea.
I
always thought of teaching as a form of good works though I did it out of my
passion for words, world literature and reasonable thinking. Oddly, I am a very
private and quiet person by nature. I willingly gave up my inner privacy (my
thoughts) in order to tell a good story. This was/is a lot to give up for
someone like me but it is the only way I can direct myself to tell an
imaginative story from my mind, heart, soul.
It is not very good story. – Amorella
It is honestly conceived and shared. In an hour
I have to be at my eye appointment. I am tired.
You
had to call the furnace repairman back and this time he found the problem and
is ordering the part that should be covered under warranty. After your eye
exam, which you passed with no eye changes whatsoever; you and Carol went to
Panera/Chipotle for supper. It has been another busy day. Tomorrow you have
some shopping at Macy’s in the AM.
2013 hours. We are
both tired. We spent part of the
day working out Social Security/IRS problems – which we did complete. Still, it
is hectic time consuming work together with telephone calls – one to Social
Security had us waiting on the phone line for 58 minutes before a two minute
response that turned out not to be adequate for our needs. We did get the
problem resolved though, so that is the most important aspect.
You took the time to drop the hint (again) that if you both ever bought
another new car you should go back to the Honda because you (Carol) is much
more comfortable driving the Honda than the Toyota. She did not deny the
thought.
2019 hours. Performance Honda in Fairfield is
where we bought most of our Hondas and would have bought our Toyota if they had
had the model and the deal. It turns out Performance recently bought Kings
Honda, which is only three miles away so they are now more acceptable to work
with if and when the time comes. What would be nice is that if the fuel prices
stay down and the hybrids stall on sales. Maybe we might get a better deal, as
well as a better price for our relatively clean, six cylinder 2005 Accord with
less than 70,000 miles on it.
The good that comes with these thoughts is that you are now thinking
that maybe you’ll live long enough to buy another new car. Post. – Amorella
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