Not as long as they keep giving him those extra hearts.
Ah so that is why we they declared the Iraq War. You see that makes more sense than them having WMDs.
A true legend is gone:
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Damn. That’s sad
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Not Al. 
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RIP Sondheim.
this is big for theatre. whoa.
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Slowly, but steadily we are loosing our last witnesses of World War II and the atrocities committed in the same period.
Easy Company might not have been the one to liberate Dachau, but they saw it, Edward Shames amongst them.
“Never again” will be harder and harder to maintain.
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“Never again” was never an option, I’m sorry to say. It’s a fantasy, like “everything will be alright.” There was always a chance of it happening again. It has happened again since then, just on a smaller scale so as to keep the rest of the world mostly quiet about it.
Never again is not about the impossibility of it as if it was a natural dogma.
It’s about remembering and vigilance.
It’s work, it’s looking at modern western democracy and how it could be failed at the most basic of humanity.
There have been failures, some deeper than others. I won’t deny it. I can even see some happening in the present.
There have also been work on the very foundation of nations. The wording in the German constitution, the culture and spirit of multiple others. Associations, foundations, events, national holidays…
“Never again” is not a tenet, it’s a rallying cry.
(also I appreciate the optimism and lack of apathy, but some in my family worked for this remembrance and I would appreciate if we could avoid to sweep away this under the expression of “it’s a fantasy” I would appreciate)
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Apologies, I didn’t mean it to be so cynical. What I meant was not so much that it was inherently impossible, but that there were always going to be enough people who secretly agreed with what happened that it was always going to come around again, eventually. Hopefully I’m wrong, if we can actually learn to get a handle on our society, but I’m not taking bets on it, currently.
More related to the topic of the thread, I wonder how much longer we have until the last of the veterans and/or survivors are gone. We already lost the last from WWI a few years ago, didn’t we?
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There are still hundreds of thousands of world war two veterans who are alive, they are projected to pass in the first half of the 30s. The youngest Holocaust survivors will follow them in the rest of the decade. As with WW1 they will be some joyful exceptions.
The memory will stay much longer, WW2 legacies are still present and alive in many places.
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Yeah in Germany for example almost every little Village has a memorial for all the victims of WW1 and 2. In my hometown, we also have golden “Stolpersteine” stumbling blocks for the Victims of the NS Terror. They are embedded in the Boardwalks in front of the Houses where the Jews lived that were deported, with their Names, Birthdays and dates of death.
It won’t be forgotten what happened, but I’m afraid people will forget how the Nazis got into the position to do those things in the first place…
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He was the best. Worked with the best. And without him Reggae, Dub, Pop, Rock and a few other musical styles would sound different today:
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Oh no this man brought so many everlasting memories to me and so many people around the world.
Rest in peace 
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Former Toronto mayor Mel Lastman, who once called in the military to clear the streets of snow, has died.
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