George,

Just a brief comment on Glenn Short's "take."

Post WW-II was also a stressful period in U.S.history--our economy was in turmoil, Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union were threatening all of Western Europe, we had embarked on the Nuclear Age, millions of returning GIs were needing employment, our deficits were off the charts, Truman was trying to save Europe with the Marshall Plan against the opposition of reticent Republicans and some Democrats.....

He had a mountain of difficulties. It was anything but a calm environment to enable the US and the world to take on the crimes of the Nazis as well as the Japanese.

But then, as now, the crimes were so shocking, the phrase "Crimes Against Humanity" became almost an everyday mantra--the US and its Allies could not wait for a brighter day to procede. Nothing can take precedence over genocide, torture and Crimes Against Humanity, these are issues fundamental to the survival of human society.

The greatest fear of Holocaust survivors is memories are short and like it is said, "those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it."

We simply cannot move on with this stain on our nation.

Harry Tenney (Electronic mail, April 17, 2009)