Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Veteran's Day
In the CNN article "WW II vet held in Nazi slave camp breaks silence: 'Let it be known'", Anthony Acevedo, a World War II medic who was captured by Nazis, talks about experience as a POW. Anthony Acevedo's story is an example of speaking the unspeakable in a couple of ways. After he and the other soldiers were rescued, they signed a document saying they would never talk about their experience in the camps and after years of silence, Anthony decided to talk about it. The events were also unspeakable because many of the things that happened in the camps were so terrible that no one wanted to talk about them.
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You are right about those things being unspeakable. It is important that you said that the things were so unimaginable that nobody wanted to reveal them.
I agree that what happened in the camps was so horrible that people wouldn't want to talk about it. If it was me i know i would do my best not to even think about it lit alone talk about it. There is no way that psychologically i could handle being in those camps or the pain after i was out. I also don't think they they should have been required to sign that document and they should of had the option to tell there story if they wanted.
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