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slsommer

2008-11-13
steps: 26,851
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Two walks with Sallie and a walk by myself as well. DH is on his way to Bluffton for meetings. I get to watch one of my grandsons for a bit tomorrow when DD1 meets friends at the cabin.

This is another photo from Struthof, a WWII concentration camp. This is a beating table in one a torture room. One would wish there were no longer any torture rooms  -- but...
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Marty
posted November 13 6:18 pm
Powerful photo.
Mary
posted November 13 6:59 pm
How awful to imagine...
starwalker
posted November 13 7:25 pm
Sobering.  Great steps for all the rainy and cool weather we've been having, Susan.  I'm working on it.
stevey
posted November 13 7:39 pm
Thanks for sharing this photo. It is unforunate that there are still torture rooms today. :(
chinds
posted November 13 8:18 pm
Very somber indeed. After some discussion we have decided not to visit the killing fields in Cambodia. It is horrible enough to know about without seeing it. When will humans learn.
slsommer
posted November 13 8:29 pm
This is a sobering photo, it's true. Am still struggling with posting a couple more from that day... leaning toward yes, but it's late and I tend to be more somber in the evening. This wasn't my generation's war -- but we had our own, didn't we? Haven't we still?
msdb1121
posted November 14 4:53 am
I agree powerful photo
henross
posted November 14 6:24 am
You post them... life isnt all flowers and grandchildren....
slsommer
posted November 14 6:53 am
Oh, Ross, you are so right! And it's all the hard times that make the flowers and grandchildren so much more beautiful (even when we want to protect them from the hard times -- protecting them deprives them of the beauty, then, too; doesn't it?)
henross
posted November 14 6:56 am
True!!! No way will my babies have to experience such things!!! and will do all in my power to make it happen!
Rosemary
posted November 14 12:32 pm
Thank you for posting your last photo Susan, and this one too.

I read all the comments from the other blog and I agree with you Susan and our friend Ross (@henross) life is not always flowers/grandchildren and sushine. 

Oliver my husband visited Auschvitz concentration camp in 1992 and he talked over with me the powerful emotions he felt while he was there.
Some of the people he had travelled with to Poland choose not to visit Auschvitz but he decided for himself to go.

He prayed and wept while there, and yes there are still people being tortured right now as I write.
Just awful, awful and it shouldn't be hapening anywhere.

raeburnb
posted November 14 5:53 pm
Wow.  I bet it was hard to visit here.  It does make it more real to see a photo like this.
slsommer
posted November 14 5:58 pm
It was very moving day.