57 million people killed!

[rjfoster]

Ok - so the subject of this messege probably got your attention. Well it should. Thats how many people were killed during the course of World War II.

5 7 M I L L I O N P E O P L E ! ! ! !

Can you wrap you mind around that number? Can you even fully make sense of 1 million, let alone 57 million!?!? I can't - i cant even start to.

So what brings this up? I recently watched a PBS show about Aushwitz where many thousands of Jews lost their lives to the German war machine. 6 million Jews were lost in total during the war. It was very painfull to watch, but watch it I did. In fact I couldn't sleep that night because I watched that show. But I dont regret watching it.

It makes me wonder where this new World War will end up - and how many will have to die before it is all over with. You never hear the "War On Terrorism" refered to as World War III, but IMHO it IS WWIII. The threat is from / against countries from all over the world, so would'nt that qualify? And the scarry thing is that I am afraid that these terrorist attacks could cause further friction between countries and spurr fighting between them. (ie the middle east in general.)

Ok I'll shut up now - I just wanted to vent some steam.


Rj