I am the parent of a high school graduate

[rikibeth]

 For the most part, the graduation ceremony went well. Yes, it was outdoors and 91F (that's 33 to everyone OUTSIDE the US), but the gathering thunderclouds did NOT open up on the assembled crowd. The senior string trio made a hash of "Appalachian Waltz", but the senior choir sounded just fine, and most of the speakers weren't overly loquacious.

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[eglantine_br]

Yay for your graduate! Sorry about the idiot. I like Oysterband too.

[witchchild]

Oh em gee, time passage!

[trowa_barton]

Oh dear!

[rikibeth]

I have what amounts to a severe allergy there.

[soon_lee]

Congratulations to you and the graduate.

[spacehawk]

Congratulations to your graduate! :-)

What was the connection the speaker was trying to make, drawing on the experiences of Victor Frankl? Was the speaker Jewish? I'm confused.

[rikibeth]

The speaker, AFAIK, was NOT Jewish. There was some lesson she was attempting to draw about loyalty to family and about treating people kindly. According to the kid she also made a bunch of factual errors about him. I don't know. I was listening to the Oysterband, and I asked my kid to please not give me too many details.

[spacehawk]

Ouch.

[rikibeth]

I've had a little too much Holocaust education in my life. A year where the Sunday classes of three-day-a-week Hebrew school were devoted to it, the Facing History And Ourselves curriculum in tenth grade, watching the Anne Frank play performed and visiting her actual hiding house in Amsterdam, plus reading of my own... I'm DONE. My own family wasn't directly affected, as we were already here, having come to escape the Cossacks' pogroms and the Tsar's draft at the turn of the century, but knowing in my bones that it would have been me... I'm DONE. Really really done. I won't see any movies on the subject, no matter how many fucking Oscars they win, and if I read stories set in WWII, I'd much rather they were set in the Pacific theater, thanks very much. And I will never EVER visit a camp