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To: Ilaine who wrote (30458)	5/23/2002 8:04:17 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Good reply CB. One of the things which I dislike in many situations is the expectation that we [meaning I] should suspend thinking because we all know that what we are dealing with is so bad, so we should just do as we are told, accept the official line, don't inquire, check, investigate or think for ourselves. When people don't like me thinking and checking, I have never found it to be for a good reason. It is invariably to avoid me coming up with information or ideas which they prefer not to exist. Usually they want to be the boss. You are quite right in what you were writing [about that subject anyway]. About the Holocaust Museum, in October 1999 I visited with our daughter Emily [19 at the time]. At the entry, they were giving out cards with the name and personal details of somebody who had died in the Nazi genocide of Jews. It made the visit personal [an actual identifiable person was represented by the museum, not just a nameless pile of shoes]. Being of an inquisitive nature, I had a look through the cards and they were [nearly - I forget if there were any females] all males. I asked the person there why that was. They didn't know. I assumed it was because there was information on males or that it was a sexist approach or maybe males are considered head of the family or males had more interesting backgrounds other than 'got married, had children' or something. Do you know why that would be? I've been to Dachau and the Holocaust Museum and Hiroshima and Arlington Cemetery. All that was supposed to be in the past. Now we have the second nuclear war likely to start and we are waiting to see what Osama's crowd [or Saddam's or whoever is supporting the attacks] will do next. The daily horror continues in Israel. People are insane. Mqurice

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