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Today is Holocaust Memorial day in Israel - and here's the gay connection: http://tiny.pl/nwxw
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The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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May these memorial sites proliferate around the world to counter the sad proclamations of those who would claim that the Holocaust never occurred.
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I believe that there should be a memorial to the gay and lesbian victims of the Hitler regime. My closest and oldest friend is Jewish, and I have always had the deepest respect for the Hebrew faith and the heroic people of Israel.
But I don't like the design of this particular memorial.
It's an iron triangle sunk into the ground. Iron is not permenant, it rusts and looks nasty after a while in the weather. Below graound level the bottom is going to collect trash, debris, leaves and gosh knows what. It looks like a trash pit and I fear that's what it might become.
The names appear to be inscribed on the inside surfaces of the walls, and after the rusting process takes over, they'll become difficult if not impossible to read.
My personal design would be three enormous slabs of pink granite upright and forming a triangle. One corner of the triangle would be offset, forming a walkway into the center. There, the names of the victims would be inscribed, and picked out in black, and in the center there would be a fountain over rocks to give a place of meditation. The interior of the memorial would be crushed grey granite, to symbolize the ashes of the victims. The "Broken Triangle" could symbolize not only the liberation of the souls who died, but the breaking of sex and gender prejudices.
These are my opinions, I don't mean to be rude or insult the artist and architect of that other design, or the municiple authorities.
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