Communication

Communication

Contributions from readers who didn't object to having their email published in Vagabond Pages.


Sometimes I don't receive an answer to my request to publish a letter and I don't know how to interpret it. So I've decided to simplify things and not oblige readers to answer. WM

Holocaust..., "People are not Communities"..., Serbs..., Poem...,


Re: How Many Jews Did Hitler Kill? (September 95 issue)

During the Holocaust ...while the Nazis with Their collaborates were dragging out from our homes my Family, Relatives and millions of Jews in Poland and in other Countries in Europe they tortured, gassed, and buried in mass graves thousands of Jews and Jewish Children who were still alive.

While the Jewish Organization from the United States are negotiating with the Government of Poland about a joint commercial project in Birkenau, aside from the crosses marking the death camps where millions of Jews were murdered are totally desecrated and polluted of large flies , it is not possible to remain and to say prayer for the death,

After my Family, Relatives and millions of Jews and Jewish children were murdered, Jewish Organizations in the United States have build magnificent Holocaust centers, where They have displayed pictures of the horrible tragedy, thousands of Synagogues, Temples and many other Jews have detailed displays on the internet about the Holocaust. A major movie was made about a death Nazi Schindler to express the appreciation of saving a few Jews, the movie is a total distortion of the reality in the tragedy, it is very cruel to humiliate thousands of Mothers with Their little Children who were murdered in Plaszow and buried in mass graves, while many were still alive, I was there.

The only reason the Holocaust Organizations and thousands of other Jews in the United States have extensive publication about the Holocaust, because They are concerned in money only, for Themselves.

And the Holocaust Organizations and thousands of other Jews in the United States are Selling the sacred Souls of my Family, Relatives and Millions of Jews and Jewish Children. This is very painful for me.

Israel Turk
Israel@webaccess.com

Mr. Turk -- many share your feelings. If you could explain what you mean by "joint commercial venture in Birkenau between Jewish American organizations and the Polish government" it will certainly add light to the picture. WM


Re: "People are not Communities (December 1996 issue)

Dear Mr. Markiewicz,
I read and appreciated your "People Are Not Communities." I embrace peace, but peace doesn't necessarily mean "reconciliation" or "unity", rather mutual appreciation and joy.

Look forward to reading your articles.

Nick Kan from Taipei
wilders@ms21.hinet.net

Nick -- I understand that you mean peace more in the heart and spirit than in formal decrees. Thanks for your comment. WM


Re: "Serbs and Jews" (May 98 issue)"Muscle Politics" (June 98 issue)

More than thank you I should congratulate you for succeeding to persist all the brain washing we are exposed to. I cannot help but wonder how can someone see the things in true light despite all the media manipulation. I am a Serbian national living in Australia and as such exposed to American and British media influence. Few hours ago I saw a BBC documentary on Kosovo and they dared say that Battle of Kosovo is a myth and that Serbian history is myth based. Such disregard for the truth really makes me sick. I have been exposed to this since 92 and still cannot get used to it. That is why when I come across someone like yourself it gives me hope in human kind.

On behalf of Serbian people I thank and congratulate you.

Zoran Lukac
070175@bud.cc.swin.edu.au


Thank you for your voice of sanity on the whole Yugoslavia issue. I've been fighting for years to get people to see that the issue as portrayed in the media has been grossly misrepresented and that our government is making critical errors in their policies towards the Serbs. Just yesterday I read that Richard Holbrooke has demanded that Serbian forces "withdraw from Kossovo" and was photographed with members of the terrorist Kossovo Liberation Army. Everywhere else in the world, wars are being fought over territory and the right to self-determination, but for some reason the US has decided that the Serbs are the great villains of the era, all for trying to claim what is rightfully theirs. Does NATO threaten to bomb the Jewish settlers in the West Bank? Does Holbrooke cozy up to the PLO? Are we going to send troops into Ulster? Of course not, and yet we have no problems doing such things in the Balkans. The Serbs cannot withdraw from land that is theirs, and Kossovo is, was, and always will be Serbian. The Serbs must negotiate, says the US. Negotiate? Is that the modern term for browbeating a nation to give up its land or else? Negotiation is impossible for the Serbs because no one hears their claims and concerns. Otherwise, the NATO countries would not have immediately recognized Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia, but instead would've taken into account the territorial claims and the complaints of the Serbian minorities who lived there for centuries. The Israelis annex large amounts of territory to Jerusalem and ignore the wishes of the Palestinians, but do we threaten them, or even condemn them, the lukewarm protests of Madeline Albright notwithstanding? In short, thank you for you revelations of the truth in the former Yugoslavia. Truth is the victim in Bosnia, as the saying goes. But as long as truth-loving individuals such as yourself continue to be a beacon in an otherwise murky arena, those of us who are losing faith can continue to hope. I only wish that your message could be heard by more people, including the geniuses at the State Department. You are a ray of light, not just for Serbian Americans, who are sick of the way their people have been demonized by the media, but by anyone interested in facts.

duluoz@hotmail.com

Song of Yarrow

There was a lady from the East / Who came to Western shores oh
And there she dreamed a sea bird flew / To mountain fields of yarrow.

And at a table by the sea / She talked of seven tomorrows
With six young men from merchant towns / And one from Indian meadows.

And six young men used all the words / That she had heard before oh
But one just hummed a melody / He called the song of Yarrow.

And from the table by the sea / She walked along the shore oh
And six were left to eat and drink / And curse the song of yarrow.

***

The six were taking meat and wine / As they had done before oh
In taverns where the old and young / Talk loudly of their sorrows.

They swore that they were better men / Than one from Indian meadows
And vowed to test their strength with him / In mountain fields of yarrow.

They searched the crooked mountain roads / Where they had been before oh
Until they found a rocky path / So straight and steep and narrow.

The path led to a shepherd's hut / Beside an Indian meadow
Where goats and sheep were pasturing / Among the stalks of yarrow.

The bees were humming all around / And perfume filled the meadow
And cloudy forms danced on the ground / Of sunlight and of shadow.

They came upon the lady there / A-walking in the meadow
A-gathering herbs and flowers there / And long tall stalks of yarrow.

She hummed a haunting melody / Of happiness and sorrow
And in her curls of golden hair / She wore the flowers of yarrow.

And at a table by a tree / She cast the stalks of yarrow
And spoke of six adventurers / Whose paths must lead through shadow.

She spoke of six young maidens bound / In realms of dark and sorrow
A-waiting for their loves to come / And sing the songs of yarrow.

She gave them food, she gave them drink / They'd never known before oh
Until they learned to hum and sing / The Seven songs of yarrow.

Among the leaves up in the tree / Beside the Indian meadow
At length they heard a white bird sing / Eternal songs of yarrow.

Mara natha hallelu, Maranatha halleluia
Mara natha hallelu, Maranatha halleluia

La plante d'Achille mille-feuille
Se nomme en Anglais "yarrow"
Eclarie le chemin mysterieux
Et guerit les blessures des heros.

Bruce Donald
Moon Phoenix Press


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