Why Kill History?

Why Repaint History?

Why Redefine History?

"History,"  Gk (h)istoría (ἱστορία) learning or knowing by inquiry, history; deriv. of (h)ístōr one who knows or sees

As I close my eyes and look back into the history of time I am only able to depict, in my mind, what I wish to reexamine. Within my mind I visualize the reality of the past with my own form of painting a story. I slowly brush a dark painting. It comes from a painting that I have seen before, and the painting has been repainted with the story that someone else has painted.

She spoke to me in modesty. She uttered before she expressed the words throughout her mouth. It seems as if she had a slight sorrow from what she was not a part of. Yet... she didn’t hold back what she wished to say. She was willing to tell me about the painting that was painted within her heart. She was ready to say something. The one, being I, was the one that she could not stop answering to. With knowing that I had a question she was ready to answer... she was ready to answer to a question from where she would feel guilt, sorry, and an element of despair.

There was a story that had been painted and repainted many times. Though, there parts that she had still not forgotten. She continued to know sections of the story that we painted inside of her over 60 years ago.

For too long she had been holding it back. In the time of history no one asked he the same question that I asked. No one would have needed to ask the question. Everyone that lived in her time of history could no deny the truth of reality. For her... she was not telling me a history tail. She would come out to depict reality within my scrutinized mind.

On that night, she was the (h)ístōr that relived her life. I sat down in awe with curiosity. She was telling me a story that I would never forget. It would be a story that anyone with commonsense could not ignore. She was redefining the (h)istoría (ἱστορία) that will always be alive within my heart.

So, this story that she told me. This story, that she told, brought a glimpse of tears that slowly flowed amongst her cheeks, and agony that crumbled the pride within her heart, and a regret she would always feel. She might have been little child when all of that happened… but it was a vivid truth within her life.

This story that Oma (grandmother) told me was a story that has been forgotten by to many. Yet, I have not forgotten it, and I never will. The only one that is forgetting it is you. You forget a story that has redefined the lives of cultures, societies, and history. It is a story that the ignorant, complacent, dogmatic, irrational, and ungodly are forgetting. They dismiss this story because they only seek to dismiss the reality of a truth. The story that I was told about became something more than a tail of history. This death, this murder, this torment of 11 million people is something that should never be forgotten.

It is time to have an intolerance for the one’s that ignore truth, the one’s that are complacent in their recliners, the dogmatism of the first Vatican, the irrationality in our schools of education, the ungodly Islamic radicals, and so many more…

I would not doubt to think that you live in one of those narrow-minded complacencies. Instead of being complacent to complacency… maybe it’s time to do something, or to just simply know about something.

This is the only thing that is happening. Memorials are being destroyed in Europe, teachers (there is one right here at the Lincoln IL Elementary School) are no longer teaching the truth of history, etc…

Historically, currently and forever… the story of truth will always be true. The trueness from my German grandmother and the truth within the texts will never change!

The painting is always a painting

The story is always a story

…but history lives within reality of our lives.

The tail of the Holocaust should pass away.

'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened'

            - Dwight David Eisenhower (WWII US General)