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 Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:28 pm
I went on a trip to Tennessee with my temple this weekend, and we visited Whitwell to see their holocaust memorial - of paper clips! Has anyone else heard about this? I thought it was amazing. A bunch of kids, most of whom have never met a Jew, thought up - and finished! - this project. They live in a completely Christian, 99% white, community, but are even more accepting than some people I know who have grown up in a more diverse area. These kids just wanted to learn about other cultures. What do you guys think of it?
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:05 pm
I don't know about the paperclips, but I've taken part in "wing stringing" for the soda tab one twice.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:04 pm
While I haven't seen it, there is also a documentary available on this memorial. The documentary is called 'Paper Clips' and should be available at your local Blockbuster or whatever.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:21 pm
i know this is very typical of me (now theres an oximoron for you), but i really didn't like paper clips. its a great thing and all, but... above all else, its a documentary. judaism is the anti-documentary. we are the one thing that the history channel will never show as a dead civilisation. and i felt it treated it just like that: ancient history. ok, thats not so bad, and probably just me despising all things leftist. but even aside from that, they had the whole thing done in a church, and at the end when the kid said kaddish? i was turning red. (nobody here really knows me that well, but fyi it is very, very hard to piss me off) there was no reason to say kaddish, there wasn't even 10 jews there (let alone men), everybody was like "hey lets partake in a nifty ancient ritual", and the guy absolutely butchered the words. and they aren't to blame. thats the saddest part. this is because of ignorance. this is assimilation
i cried.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 1:52 pm
At least the kids tried. I've lost count of the number of times kids at my school simply haven't bothered to remember.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:33 pm
psychocats At least the kids tried. I've lost count of the number of times kids at my school simply haven't bothered to remember. i wonder how many of them "try" to keep shabbos, or kosher.
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:39 pm
ZonkotheSane psychocats At least the kids tried. I've lost count of the number of times kids at my school simply haven't bothered to remember. i wonder how many of them "try" to keep shabbos, or kosher. Who cares, at least they're paying their respects to the people murdered. you dont gotta let some things slide, oh so its not perfect, oh so some of them where none jews, who cares you know, whats next your gonna start whining about how the people in the holocaust should have keeped kosher. At least people recognize how horrible, tragic and unececary the holocaust was. 
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:03 pm
Yehudah ZonkotheSane psychocats At least the kids tried. I've lost count of the number of times kids at my school simply haven't bothered to remember. i wonder how many of them "try" to keep shabbos, or kosher. Who cares, at least they're paying their respects to the people murdered. you dont gotta let some things slide, oh so its not perfect, oh so some of them where none jews, who cares you know, whats next your gonna start whining about how the people in the holocaust should have keeped kosher. At least people recognize how horrible, tragic and unececary the holocaust was. horrible? yes. tragic? without a doubt. unneccessary? hells no. correct me if i'm wrong; if something is worth giving up a chance at world domination to destroy, then that thing is even more worth preserving. and yet, this reasoning seems to fall on deaf ears... stare
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:55 am
ZonkotheSane Yehudah ZonkotheSane psychocats At least the kids tried. I've lost count of the number of times kids at my school simply haven't bothered to remember. i wonder how many of them "try" to keep shabbos, or kosher. Who cares, at least they're paying their respects to the people murdered. you dont gotta let some things slide, oh so its not perfect, oh so some of them where none jews, who cares you know, whats next your gonna start whining about how the people in the holocaust should have keeped kosher. At least people recognize how horrible, tragic and unececary the holocaust was. horrible? yes. tragic? without a doubt. unneccessary? hells no. correct me if i'm wrong; if something is worth giving up a chance at world domination to destroy, then that thing is even more worth preserving. and yet, this reasoning seems to fall on deaf ears... stare Zonko, if I ever asked you out on a date, would you be particularly bothered?
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:41 am
Stxitxchxes Zonko, if I ever asked you out on a date, would you be particularly bothered? huh?
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:48 pm
ZonkotheSane Stxitxchxes Zonko, if I ever asked you out on a date, would you be particularly bothered? huh? ..Nothing. wink
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:07 pm
Stxitxchxes ZonkotheSane Stxitxchxes Zonko, if I ever asked you out on a date, would you be particularly bothered? huh? ..Nothing. wink why would i be bothered?
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:45 pm
i saw that movie in skool
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:58 pm
Yes, I have. There's actually a documentary about it. It's amazin what those children did, and how it affected their community. It is, if you'll excuse the cheesieness, rather inspiring.
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:48 pm
my school was in the movie!
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