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Friday, July 21, 2017

Jody was a Draft Dodger

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When I was in basic training in 1972, we sang when we marched. We sang when we ran. We sang about the terrible food, the training, ab...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Jerusalem: The Youngest 5,000-Year-Old City I Ever Visited

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Jerusalem : 5,000 years old and the youngest city I visited in my 20-country tour. When I flew to Israel after a month in mostly Easter...
Monday, July 17, 2017

The Holocaust Deportation Memorial in Paris

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At the east end of Il de Notre Dame in the center of Paris is a memorial to the 200,000 people deported from France to death camps...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

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Even though I knew the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin would confront me with some of the feeling of people disappearing, the reality was eeri...
Friday, July 14, 2017

A Moving Experience Thanks to Jerusalem's Arab Quarter

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The trip to Jerusalem was my first in a desert since leaving Iraq in 2010. Four days after I arrived in Iraq, the combination of low hu...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Visiting German Historic Sites with Two Coptic Christians from Cairo

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The Altar at the Cathedral in Worms where Martin Luther  was tried for heresy nearly 500 years ago. When Cliff and I visited the firs...

The First Nazi Concentration Camp and the Oldest Jewish Cemetery in Europe

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The very ordinary look of mass murder. This small industrial building in  Hesse was the very first site of slaughter in the Nazi regime...