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The entrance to Auschwitz IPoland
3 min read2016

Dateline May 25, 2016, Auschwitz

Of everything we saw in ten weeks across Europe, one morning stands apart. From Krakow we were driven out to Auschwitz, and what we found there was beyond anything a history book had prepared us for. This is a short, plain account of what we witnessed, and of the guide's parting words, that the world knew, and that we must stay watchful.

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The USS Arizona Memorial above the sunken battleship in Pearl HarborHawaii
3 min read2011

Dateline April 1, 2011, Pearl Harbor, Oahu

A visit to Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial. Over six hundred feet of battleship resting on the floor of the harbor with the sailors of December 7, 1941. The wall of names, the small amounts of oil still escaping from the hull, and the USS Missouri turned inward to watch over them. Eleanor Roosevelt's wartime prayer at the circle of remembrance.

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