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Sherri_G
I've been to NYC maybe four times. I got a call from the woman (Phyllis) in between posting this and answering this, and we talked about that trip for a few minutes. I want to go again, but I don't know. Lisa would like to visit some of these places... and maybe we will, but the world is a different place now.
posted by
BigV
on September 11, 2022 at 10:08 AM
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Yes, I could.
It wasn't until later that most Americans could travel. Before we were married, I had traveled extensively as a teen. Judy and I spent 19 days traveling America because she had never been anywhere.
I was either lucky or unfortunate in the fact I was able to visit so many cities and several different nations. I have been in all but Hawaii and Alaska here in the US, I was in Canada all the time a few years back, and I was in England, Germany, and France, mainly to just "be there," but I also went to a number of WW2 sites and concentration camps.
Most of them were great memories, but a number of them were not. As I stood in some of the camps and in the various museums, I felt something I still can not describe.
At the age of seven, I was already reading about the concentration camps, and when I saw the 1961 ninth episode of 'The Twilight Zone,' 'Deaths Head Revisited,' I knew I had to go... at the age of eight.
I was deeply affected by the entire program, but it was that last line of the program, "Dachau. Why does it still stand? Why do we keep it standing?" that really slapped me and ensured I would go to visit these evil places.
The question was answered in Rod Serling's closing narration:
There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes – all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth.
posted by
BigV
on September 11, 2022 at 10:05 AM
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Good afternoon
Every time that we drive through New York we think about this. 
posted by
Sherri_G
on September 11, 2022 at 9:47 AM
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Would you believe I've never been in New York?
posted by
TAPS.
on September 11, 2022 at 9:36 AM
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