Obama at D Day Memorial Normandy FranceThe American Cemetery in Normandy France is a place any person who loves freedom should visit. Against impossible odds America and her Allies stormed the beaches and drove the invading Germans back.
As soldier landed on the Normandy beaches they where mowed down by German forces by the hundreds. A true killing field that touches our thoughts almost 60 years later.
The thought of what the Germans did in WW 2 saddens people. The idea that people could do such terrible thing to another person is hard to think of this day in age.
Though the death camps are closed and Europe is free the world still has leaders that would take the same path if not kept in check.
It is a sad legacy for the human species to see government in a modern age behaving as though they are still in the middle ages. Jailing and killing your own citizens in the name of religion has no place in the modern world.

 

Buchenwald Death CampPresident Obama visited Dresden castle, held meetings and a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and toured the Church of Our Lady.
Obama sayid he has been taught since his youth about the Holocaust. He said hearing stories about his great uncle, who was a very young man serving in World War II. That Uncle was part of the 89th Infantry Division, the first Americans to reach a concentration camp. They liberated Ohrdruf, one of Buchenwald's sub-camps.

Like most Americans on the east coast I awoke to Barack Obama speaking in Egypt.  Obama spoke of tolerance of others beliefs and religion.

The President also spook directly at Iran and declared that Israel is not going away. We should all realize this and move forward not dwell in the past.

I must say this is like using reverse psychology on a child. He takes whomever is watching by the hand and explains why you can't abuse a people because of religion, sex, background or beliefs. The treatment and a woman's freedom was also a topic Obama covers in this speech.

The audiance (mostly students) seemed to like Barack Obama as the applause was numerous. Obama is a great speaker and is more of a teacher who can get through to people. With a new youthful generation of middle easterners coming to power we can hope that the regoin can learn to live together.

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