The Liberators

Liberation is a bronze Holocaust memorial created by the sculptor Nathan Rapoport, located in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey. The monument portrays an American soldier, carrying the body of a Holocaust survivor out of a Nazi concentration camp

One of the very best things about life in The Villages is that almost EVERYTHING is celebrated or marked for remembrance. No occasion of any importance is forgotten and folks here have the time and desire to stop and "smell the roses". Last Sunday was "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day" and you can bet they were more than welcomed back here in The Villages with an event in the Veteran's Memorial Park.

It warms my heart to see what is planned for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Four WWII US Army Liberators who were at Buchenwald, Dachau and who witnessed the Gardelegen Massacre of Jews and Christian political prisoners and POWs will be speaking at St Timothy's Catholic Church (a gargantuan edifice that holds thousands). Given the ages of the speakers, this may truly be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from these Heroes.

Sometimes stopping and smelling the roses means stopping to remember the weeds and thorns that are also part of life.

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