What took more courage? To give up resisting and go to Vietnam or

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November 7 at 9:50 PM

Ron Alexander I wish I would have enough courage to go to Canada like so many of my Brothers did during Vietnam war. I would have been disowned by family and most US citizens, but it would have been worth it to my integrity. And my family has disowned me since anyway. However, thanks to all my friends here, I do not feel disowned by country YET.

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Betsy Lame Smalarz Ron Alexander
Home is not a place. Home is a power...that power deep within...those strong convictions that you have of what is right and good and true ...that allows you to stand your ground no matter where you are and no matter what circumstances you find yourself in. This is what you value and this is what you protect. And wherever you are and whomever you are with will be blessed and benefited by your presence. The world needs individuals like you. Letting your light shine even in the darkest place helps others to see the path forward.

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Ron Alexander Wow, I have gotten more courage in my older years, nothing left to lose or to prove, thank you Betsy LameSmalarz!

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Betsy Lame Smalarz Ron Alexander
Don't worry! There's plenty more to do! And you're very good at it! Thank you, Ron.

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Ron Alexander This may be the gift of 45, that he has opened so many of us to GOP greed and corruption, that we now do not feel alone anymore. I have been thinking like this ever since watching what was going on in Vietnam, and wondering why am I so alone to see so much money going to that war, and NOT to the health, welfare and education for all of us? Ben And Jerry sponsored an educational movement with the discs, pies, which I joined for awhile, however I could find few takers down here, and they went away when John Edwards from N. C. was busted for his extramarital affair. His wife was always the shining light in that relationship anyway. Thanks again Betsy Lame Smalarz

When the 3rd Armored Division of the US Army liberated Buchenwald,

When the 3rd Armored Division of the US Army liberated Buchenwald, this Russian inmate points an identifying and accusing finger at a Nazi guard who was especially cruel towards the prisoners. The photo was taken on April 14, 1945. Estimates place Buchenwald’s death toll at over 56,000 people. It was built on Etter Mountain, near Weimar, in July of 1937. It was one of the original concentration camps built on German soil and also the largest.

Gandhi's letter to humanity and

A real letter sent from Gandhi to Hitler in July of 1939, which reads:

Friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity. But I have resisted their request, because of the feeling that any letter from me would be an impertinence. Something tells me that I must not calculate and that I must make my appeal for whatever it may be worth. It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to a savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success? Any way I anticipate your forgiveness, if I have erred in writing to you.

Hitler surveying bomb damage 2 days before his suicide.