I got to thinking about this site, the diaries here and my lack
of writing in recent months.
Why? Why write here?
Sometimes I just don't know, and then at other times I get an idea,
that something I see may be of interest to others.
I still think that one of my primary purposes is to write for my
children, so that they will have a written record of some of the
events which we have done together, and some which I have done by
myself.
I finally took a moment to work on the web pages again, and have
some ideas about adding more quotes and providing some more structure
to them. It seems that the majority of people who visit my site
from the web get there by searching for quotes.
I don't want to disappoint the readers, after all, look how much
they are paying.
Quotes they want, quotes they get.
They are simple, easy, and maybe an encouragement to someone.
Maybe it will just make us think now and then.
The following is attributed to a Luthern Pastor in Germany during
the second world war. Quoting from the Holocost memorial in Boston:
"It has become a legendary expression of the lesson of the
Holocost. Ironically, Niemoeller had delivered anti-Semetic sermons
early in the Nazi regieme. He later opposed Hitler and was sent
to a concentration camp."
"THEY CAME FIRST for the communists,
and I didn't speak up because
I wasn't a communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because
I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak
up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up
because I was a Protestant.
THEN THEY CAME for me,
and by that time no one was left
to speak up"
Martin Niemoeller