MUST READ!-From a FB friend:"Copied from a friend"One of my fav Twilight Zone episodes, because of its powerful writing by creator Rod Serling, involved a story, about a Nazi concentration camp commander who returns to Dachau decades after the Holocaust and is driven to insanity by the memory of the ghosts of those whom he had killed.
As the man is taken away, the doctor looks at the desolate remains of the concentration camp and shaken by its ghostly presence, says aloud, "Why does it still stand, why?"
In one of the most profound writings by Serling, his voice as the narrator responds to the query in the closing monologue as follows,
"There is an answer to the doctor's question.
All the Dachau's must remain standing.
The Dachau's, the Belsen's, the Buchenwald's, the Auschwitze's - all of them.
They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard.
Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience.
And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth."
As I watched the news last night see Reverend Al Sharpton arguing for the closing of the Jefferson Memorial -and see clips of people pulling down with ropes statues that are over 100 years old in public - I thought of these prophetic words from Rod Serling written in 1962 and wonder if we have become those gravediggers."
"Where does it begin and end?What part of our history is safe if every part can in some way offend almost everyone and if being offended is the standard, what will be left of our history for our future generations?"
