Did you know?

Holocaust Memorial Day was April 25th.

There are evil people that would repeat these actions.  We must never forget, but we must learn from history!

The official website of this is http://www.hmd.org.uk/

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Poem for Holocaust Memorial Day National Commemoration

Gillian Clarke, poet for Cardiff composed a poem for the National Commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day which was held in Cardiff on Thursday 26th January 2006.

The poem was performed on stage by five young people to an audience of 1900 which included The Rt Hon Tony Blair MP, Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, the Archbishop of Wales, Holocaust Survivors and many other representatives of faith and community groups.

The poem, entitled ‘For the Rescuers’ focuses on the theme for 2006: ‘One Person Can Make a Difference’:

For the boy near Hanover sixty years ago
on his way to school on the frozen road alone,
who found a man in a ditch, all skin and bone,
and left his lunch-box there, in the falling snow,

For the Auschwitz nurse who stole from its cradle
an hour-old boy, stowed next to her skin, held her breath
while they cast the rest in a pit and gunned them down.
She named the child and raised him as her own.

For the blonde girl at the frontier who stood her ground,
flirting with Nazi guards so her black-eyed friend
could slip away into the forest and run,
while she stayed to face the music and the gun.

For the army cook who counted every night
in the cookhouse hullabaloo, one extra plate
which he carried across the dark fields to a shed,
where runaway Jew or Gypsy made their bed.

For the Breton woman who left her door on the catch
left food and drink for a fugitive on the run,
water to wash his wounds. She listened for the latch
but never met her guests. By dawn they’d gone.

- Gillian Clark

Yankee Test

Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?  This test was introduced to me by Nicole at her blog, Less Serious than the Other.  Here's what the site says about this test…

To find out how much Southern blood your speech shows, simply choose the words you use below, then press "Compute My Score!" at the end. The Alpha Dictionary will compute your score and tell you where you're coming from: are you (all) speaking Bubbaese or are you(se) a Yankee Doodle Dandy? The higher your score, the deeper from the South you are coming. The test is based on research by the Harvard Computer Society enhanced by Dr. Beard's own research here at alphaDictionary.

Here are my results… 66% Dixie. Just under the Mason-Dixon Line.

I really didn't care about my results.  However, I thought the test was very interesting.  After you select an answer, in a Results box at the end of each question it tell you what areas in the United States use the word or pronounciation you selected!