Today was a slow day and it wasn’t until this evening that I got to the last of my email reminders for blogs I follow. It was for Derrick Knight, a retired lad in England, who delightfully chronicles his adventures in the garden the Head Gardener (Jackie, Mrs Knight) kindly lets him meander through whilst doing a few gardening-ish chores. Derrick is a lover of books, and the New Forest, and the seaside, and his comestibles.
In his latest post he talks about Dirk Bogarde, a British actor, and his writing.
I always liked him as an actor, (Dirk, not Derrick) so I tootled off to read up about him via that wonderful resource portal, Wikipedia.
Turns out that Dirk was among the Allied officers who went into Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April of 1945. Please read what he wrote. It’s important. (
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Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
“Liking” this post didn’t feel quite correct, but you know what I meant by it! Human society seems to operate on a system of lack of information, poor guesses, rotten decisions and a certain laziness. I’ve never understood though why it is a system so prone to falling apart, why we always have global wars breaking out instead of global love-ins…
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No, I couldn’t ‘like’ it either…so I reblogged it, because she is right. The only thing that separates us, as individuals, from the horrors recounted here is our own choices.
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At some point in our racial history, competition, from its most mild to its most extreme, took over from cooperation as a species survival mechanism.
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One would think that to be animal instinct taking precedence…
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Thank you for the reblog, Sue. 🙂
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It had to be done.
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Thanks for this powerful sharing Sue. Choices, reminders, and the evil that man can do. 😦 ❤
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Absolutely, Debbie. x
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❤
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