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The Moral Nation: Humanitarianism and U.S. Foreign Policy Today pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
MEMORY IS THE ANSWER<br > Sydney H. Schanberg<br > My father was poor growing up and when his hard work<br > brought him in middle age to a place where he was no longer<br > poor, his memory of those difficult years informed his life in a<br > manner that made him very good at helping others who were<br > down on their luck. He took care of his family first but he didn t<br > forget the others.<br > These thoughts have rushed upon me because he died a<br > little over a week ago, and when a parent dies we grope for<br > meaning. Moreover, in the jumbled, private days following his<br > death, the outside world--murmuring for attention--was also<br > discussing memory and morality.<br > Elie Wiesel, our teacher of the Holocaust, a child of the<br > concentration camps, was telling the President: ~This is why<br > survivors, of whom you spoke, Mr. President, have tried to teach<br > their contemporaries how to build on ruins, how to invent hope<br > in a world that offers none, how to proclaim faith to a generation<br > that has seen it shamed and mutilated. And I believe, we believe,<br > that memory is the answer, perhaps the only answer."<br > Speaking of the concentration camps, Mr. Wiesel said: "Mr<br > President, 1 was there, l was there when American liberators<br > arrived. And they gave us back our lives. And what I felt for<br > them then nourishes me to the end of my days We are<br > grateful to this country, the greatest democracy in the world, the<br > freest nation in the world, the moral nation."<br > Sometimes Presidents and policy makers, caught and dis-<br > tracted by their geopolitical balancing acts, seem to lose the<br > Copyright ~ 1985, by the New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.<br >
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The Moral Nation: Humanitarianism and U.S. Foreign Policy Today pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024