The Dragon

Rock-It, the whippet in the forefront, shows her best dragon face!

Reflections on "Night"

So on a recent episode of "The Colbert Report," Stephen was talking about the controversy over the James Frey memoir "A Million Little Pieces" and that Elie Wiesel's "Night" was being questioned by, among others, Mel Gibson's father--someone who purportedly believes that the Holocaust didn't happen. I had never heard of the book which is apparently taught in a lot of high school English classes. We only read Anne Frank. Anyway, my husband mentioned what a good book it was and I borrowed it from my step-son. Chilling. In terms of sheer numbers, the American Indian genocide was worse, but in terms of what was done to these human beings in the camps... Even seeing it in a film like "Schindler's List" doesn't hit you as hard as hearing someone who lived it relate his experiences. How can some people think that humans are the pinnacle of evolution when no other species on earth commits such cruelty. The passage that haunts me is where Elie says that the first night in the camp so many things in him died seven times over. Those words will haunt my mind forever. I think that is their purpose.

Signing off for now...