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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,

   This is not a celebration, but a time to keep fresh in our hearts so we will never forget.

BONUS #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC9oDrwFAO0 - Remembrances - Itzhak Perlman

HOMEWORK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_HaShoah 

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/yom-hashoah

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/holocaust/a/yomhashoah.htm

http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holoc.htm        

   Take time today to remember those millions of worlds which ended.....

Not just Jews but Christians, ....too sad.
 
 
WORLD WAR 2 PICTURES

These photos were taken in Germany by James Emison Chanslor, an Army Master Sergeant who served in World War II from 1942 until 1945.
Source: Photos courtesy of John Michael Chanslor

It is a matter of history that when Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps, he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The above sentence is not really correct, but it does nothing to negate the reality
of the horror of these images, or the fact that there are those who make such obscene claims:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/holocaust.asp

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.

This ..... is ..... in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian peoples looking the other way!

Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,'
it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

.....remember, because we cannot let it ever happen again.


Thanks To ALL Who Served And Are Serving..
Please Pray For Our Troops And Leaders.
 

God Bless America. Land That I love.
 

   On a personal note,  ..... As the Regimental Surgeon for the 116th Infantry of the 29th Division,         my daddy, the late Robert Buckley (John Marshall HS - '25) was present at the liberation of at least one of the infamous Nazi concentration camps the one at Dinslaken. He would never actually admit it to me, but he was in the right place at the right time, and it would stand to reason that he should have been there. Moreover, on more than one occasion he related in great detail a delousing scene of woman prisoners (he called them "refugees") which I later viewed in a documentary exactly as he had described. Most telling to me, however, was the way he never missed an opportunity to show me, a young child, very graphic images of the camps as they appeared in magazines and on television. Considering the great care he had taken to protect me from other evils of the world, his heroic efforts that I should never forget speak volumes to me, even today.

   Thank you, Daddy.

From Brian Beachum ('72) of VA - 04/26/16 - "Disc-O-Ten":

Carol Harty, Here's a link a friend turned me on to. It's a recording made of the WAVY TV-10 TV show called "Disc-O-Ten" that features dancers from Newport News High Schools from 1967. It's a blast. A real rarity. Here is the link to the Disc-O-Ten program on YouTube. https://youtu.be/GvoO93N959M Let me know if you recognize anyone. Also, a reminder that I'm having a display of my photography work at the Hampton Roads Transit Gallery, 509 E. 18th Street, Norfolk, VA. The gallery is open Mon - Fri 8am - 5pm. The show runs through August 26th. Here's another copy of the show announcement. The show is entitled "The Magic of County Mayo, Ireland." You can guess the subject matter... Brian Beachum Beachum Studios, Inc. Newport News High School "Class of '72" "The forgotten class..." (Even though we had to attend a different school that last year, a few of use dedicated Typhoons still choose to have NNHS on our rings and diplomas!)    WOWZERONI! Thank you, Brian! I would have been more likely to have recognized dancers a couple of years older than a couple of years younger than I, but I did see a few familiar looking faces. For sure and certain I spotted Kenny Schwartz ('67) and Roslyn Smith ('67)!