WWII | It Is What It Is

~~September 18, 2015~~

“IT IS WHAT IT IS” HAS BEEN CHALLENGED”

DearKitty author of the blog Dear Kitty. Some blog

has been so kind to nominate this blog for the
3 Day Quote Challenge.

You can find Kitty here:

https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/

I truly thank you for this gesture, my dearest blogging friend!

Rules of the Three-Day Quote Challenge

Thank the blogger who nominated you.
Publish 3 quotes on 3 consecutive days in your blog.

It can be your own, or from a book, movie or from anyone who inspires you.
Nominate 3 more bloggers to carry on this endeavor.

MY QUOTE FOR TODAY IS

THE STORY BEHIND IT

The quotation stems from Niemöller’s lectures during the early postwar period. Different versions of the quotation exist. These can be attributed to the fact that Niemöller spoke extemporaneously and in a number of settings.

Much controversy surrounds the content of the poem as it has been printed in varying forms, referring to diverse groups such as Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, Trade Unionists, or Communists depending upon the version.

Nonetheless his point was that Germans — in particular, he believed, the leaders of the Protestant churches — had been complicit through their silence in the Nazi imprisonment, persecution, and murder of millions of people.

“As it appears in …. full read/full credit”

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392

MY THREE NOMINEES FOR TODAY ARE

Michelle Marie

http://tellmeaboutit.co/

Raewyn … My “Kiwi” Friend

https://decocraftsdigicrafts.wordpress.com/

Barbara

Welcome!

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#WeAllAreOne #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex #hrexachwordpress

I find these words so very important and so very inspiring. Even though they were written during WWII and Nazi Germany and mention Communists, Jews, Catholics and Protestants, you can fill in the blanks with the different ethnic groups of current times.

By doing so, the quote becomes relevant and current.

Bottom line. we need to band together and stand up against the forces that work against equality and humanity.

We ALL are connected through HUMANITY!

HortyRex©

We ALL are ONE!!

~~September 28, 2014~~

A combined message: war, peace, rich folks, soldiers, timeless.

I found this graphic this morning as I browsed through the postings in Facebook. The reason I chose to post it is that even though this man lived from 1912 through 1967, I consider these words timeless.

I assume that he lived through WWII, Korea and Vietnam and all the conflicts and “skirmishes” that happened during his life time.

Yet, these words could very easily apply to our current times.

If only ….. this would happen.

“As it appears in …. “

Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children’s songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is “This Land Is Your Land.”

Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Hunter, Harry Chapin, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Andy Irvine, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, Jerry Garcia, Jay Farrar, Bob Weir, Jeff Tweedy, Bob Childers and Tom Paxton have acknowledged Guthrie as a major influence.

Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression when Guthrie traveled with displaced farmers from Oklahoma to California and learned their traditional folk and blues songs, earning him the nickname the “Dust Bowl Troubadour.”

Throughout his life Guthrie was associated with United States Communist groups, though he was seemingly not a member of any.