The faces of the people
screaming for justice
their voices sounding
from behind the frames
surrounded ever
by the silent witnesses
the ones who were killed
massacred for who they were
a people, a family
the children of David
wiped from a continent
in blind, unholy rage
September 3, 2010
on remembering
http://www.ushmm.org/
the United States Holocaust Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/a_and_a/inside1/
in emails today
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(Raymond A. Foss)
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