Letters to the Marshfield News-Herald
On July 26, 2003 the Marshfield News-Herald asked its readers to comment on their editorial “Tell us if you disagree with photo choice” namely should the News-Herald have shown the pictures of Saddam’s dead sons. Before I comment, some historical facts. In the winter of 1813 Napoleon Bonaparte abandoned his troops in Russia. He had to cross Germany. He was hated, he was unprotected, he was...
Editor MNH: 8/9/03
The eye is not proprietary. It knows nothing of a Platt book which registers borders thereby separating what is yours from what’s mine. It only sees beauty or ugliness, caring maintenance or irresponsible neglect. The beautiful garden you have created and maintain (unless you have walled it off) is mine to enjoy. My eye sees a neglected property, sends a message to the...
The eye is not proprietary. It knows nothing of a Platt book which registers borders thereby separating what is yours from what’s mine. It only sees beauty or ugliness, caring maintenance or irresponsible neglect. The beautiful garden you have created and maintain (unless you have walled it off) is mine to enjoy. My eye sees a neglected property, sends a message to the...
Editor MNH: (as submitted)
In a letter to the editor I have been accused of trying to remove books from our High School Libraries. Here is my story. In l994 I offered to donate books, the Hoax of the Twentieth Century, the Aushwitz Myth, the Leuchter Report, etc. to the M. Public Library. The library accepted. In a letter to the M. School Board (Jan.26, 1995) I repeated this offer to the...
In a letter to the editor I have been accused of trying to remove books from our High School Libraries. Here is my story. In l994 I offered to donate books, the Hoax of the Twentieth Century, the Aushwitz Myth, the Leuchter Report, etc. to the M. Public Library. The library accepted. In a letter to the M. School Board (Jan.26, 1995) I repeated this offer to the...
Editor MNH: 12/28/02
Daniel J. Goldhagen, author of “Hitler’s Willing Executioners” (meaning the Germans) has written a new book “A Moral Reckoning – The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair.” According to Goldhagen in the New Testament there are approximately 450 anti-Semitic passages from which sprang the undercurrent of anti-Semitism within...
Daniel J. Goldhagen, author of “Hitler’s Willing Executioners” (meaning the Germans) has written a new book “A Moral Reckoning – The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair.” According to Goldhagen in the New Testament there are approximately 450 anti-Semitic passages from which sprang the undercurrent of anti-Semitism within...
MNH: 11/27/02
One day during summer I had worked on our land the whole morning and despite being hungry and tired stopped at Coppses to buy groceries. When the lady who did the bagging asked pleasantly: “Paper or plastic?” I snapped with irritation: “Just bag it!” Then I stopped at the M&I branch office. The teller asked sweetly: “How do you want your money, large bills or small?” I...
One day during summer I had worked on our land the whole morning and despite being hungry and tired stopped at Coppses to buy groceries. When the lady who did the bagging asked pleasantly: “Paper or plastic?” I snapped with irritation: “Just bag it!” Then I stopped at the M&I branch office. The teller asked sweetly: “How do you want your money, large bills or small?” I...
Editor MNH: 9/25/02
Christianity has a dual face. One face looks to eternity and the world beyond. The other face is fixed on the here and now. The first face is the “rock of ages”, the second face acts like a sponge absorbing the trends of every epoch. During the Renaissance the Popes were high living Renaissance princes. During the Enlightenment, many priests and ministers subscribed to “...
Christianity has a dual face. One face looks to eternity and the world beyond. The other face is fixed on the here and now. The first face is the “rock of ages”, the second face acts like a sponge absorbing the trends of every epoch. During the Renaissance the Popes were high living Renaissance princes. During the Enlightenment, many priests and ministers subscribed to “...
Editor MNH: (12/23/01)
To everything there is a season: a time to weep and a time to laugh: a time to have a parade and a time, Advent, when a parade, even one called a Christmas parade, is inappropriate. What is Advent? In the Christian calendar Advent is the four weeks before Christmas. In my childhood it was a period like Lent. When the priest celebrated early mass, the Rorate, the color of...
To everything there is a season: a time to weep and a time to laugh: a time to have a parade and a time, Advent, when a parade, even one called a Christmas parade, is inappropriate. What is Advent? In the Christian calendar Advent is the four weeks before Christmas. In my childhood it was a period like Lent. When the priest celebrated early mass, the Rorate, the color of...
Editor MNH: 5/27/05
During the 18th and the beginning 19th century the German speaking states confiscated the accumulated wealth of the Catholic church. The monies were used to establish a secular education system. Painful as it was at the time, in retrospect it proved beneficial in as far as the German clergy never had to experience the virulent anti-clericalism turned murderous during the...
During the 18th and the beginning 19th century the German speaking states confiscated the accumulated wealth of the Catholic church. The monies were used to establish a secular education system. Painful as it was at the time, in retrospect it proved beneficial in as far as the German clergy never had to experience the virulent anti-clericalism turned murderous during the...
To: Community News (5/9/05)
It was early winter in l945 when my mother took me, a girl of ten, to Augsburg to visit my grandfather who lived at the outskirts. The train from Thannhausen to Augsburg must have been running again, otherwise how could we have gotten there. After supper my step uncle, two years older than I, said: “Let’s go to the Americans” with that he meant the club for the...
It was early winter in l945 when my mother took me, a girl of ten, to Augsburg to visit my grandfather who lived at the outskirts. The train from Thannhausen to Augsburg must have been running again, otherwise how could we have gotten there. After supper my step uncle, two years older than I, said: “Let’s go to the Americans” with that he meant the club for the...
To Community News: 12/5/04
There is no collective guilt;
But there is a collective fate!
The University of Wisconsin/Marshfield Campus sponsors a continuing education program. The first lecture in the Fall series 2004 under the heading Personal Enrichment was titled Surviving The Holocaust. This is what it said about the lecturer, Henry Golde: “Concentration camp survivor and author Henry...
There is no collective guilt;
But there is a collective fate!
The University of Wisconsin/Marshfield Campus sponsors a continuing education program. The first lecture in the Fall series 2004 under the heading Personal Enrichment was titled Surviving The Holocaust. This is what it said about the lecturer, Henry Golde: “Concentration camp survivor and author Henry...
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