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Thread ID: 3808 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2002-12-03
2002-12-03 01:05 | User Profile
Education fulfilling its primary purpose. You wanna bet schoolkids in all sorts of Norwich schools will be 'voluntarily' contributing?
[url=http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20021202/localnews/488185.html]http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/storie...ews/488185.html[/url]
Kids collect coins in memory of young Holocaust victims By DOUGLAS P., GUARINO Norwich Bulletin
NORWICH -- The Beth Jacob Synagogue School plans to count the 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust one penny at a time. In an effort known as the "penny project," the school hopes to collect 1.5 million pennies in time for the annual Southeastern Connecticut Community Holocaust Remembrance program in April.
If successful, the money would go toward construction of a memorial sculpture at a local site to be determined to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nazi campaign that killed some six million European Jews.
The school kicked off the effort during a brief ceremony at the synagogue Sunday.
Students in grades one through seven made personal donations by pouring pennies into an empty 10-gallon fish tank. It is estimated that four such tanks will have to be filled to meet the goal.
Josh Ladd, a seventh-grader at the school, dumped the copper contents of a Ziploc bag into the tank. The 12-year-old Franklin resident said he had been collecting the pennies for as long as he could remember.
"We thought we were going to use them for spending money, but I'm glad we used them for this instead," he said. "I think it's just a great thing to do for all those kids who died just because they were Jewish -- I'm just happy to be a part of it."
Rabbi Gary Atkins said that Hanukkah, a holiday of dedication and renewal, was an appropriate time to remember the young lives lost during the Holocaust.
"If they had lived, they would be parents and grandparents," Atkins said. "They would have had children of their own."
Atkins said the project, which is new to southeastern Connecticut, has received the support of the city government. He said penny depositories would be located throughout the city.
"We're going beyond the synagogue, because we think this is something that we hope other people outside the Jewish community will be interested in," Atkins said.
Mayor Arthur Lathrop and his wife attended the ceremony and emptied penny rolls into the tank.
"It commemorates one of the most horrible incidents in world history," Lathrop said of the project. "These pennies are bright and they will be like lights. It's the least we can do to commemorate the Holocaust and do something good for the community."
dguarino@norwichbulletin.com
2002-12-03 01:24 | User Profile
I wish the Jews would just LET IT GO ALREADY.
I am tired of their holohoaxing and usury.
2002-12-03 02:23 | User Profile
**determined to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nazi campaign that killed some six million European Jews. **
Jesus H. Christ, does anybody outside of a complete moron still believe this f* horsesh?????
We're in the internet age now and ITZ COMING!!!
2002-12-03 03:45 | User Profile
While I don't really care one way or the other about these annoyances, I find it hilarious that contributing pennies would in any way help anyone.
Reminds me of my co-workers who would come around and beg for money for EVERY EVENT in their lives. "Jody just had her 2nd kid, would you like to contribute $5 to help buy a gift for the little one?" Gawwwd, everytime someone had a birthday, kid, marriage or abortion we were asked to give money.
Finally one day I said, "Has anyone gotten me anything?" (I know, insensitive)
-J
2002-12-03 04:23 | User Profile
"We thought we were going to use them for spending money, but I'm glad we used them for this instead," he said. "I think it's just a great thing to do for all those kids who died just because they were Jewish -- I'm just happy to be a part of it."
This is the kind of excerpt that honestly calls out for the words: Barf Alert!
**Reminds me of my co-workers who would come around and beg for money for EVERY EVENT in their lives. "Jody just had her 2nd kid, would you like to contribute $5 to help buy a gift for the little one?" Gawwwd, everytime someone had a birthday, kid, marriage or abortion we were asked to give money.
Finally one day I said, "Has anyone gotten me anything?" (I know, insensitive)**
Not insensitive, jay, but logical. I totally agree with you. I can see how that type of thing would get to be quite annoying. This article about pennies for Jews is an example of people spreading around their pain (real or imagined) to others, and attaching a price tag to it, while the baby fund you mention is an example of people spreading around their happiness.
Either way, they should keep it to themselves rather than feel the need to involve everyone they see in the ups and downs of their lives. Americans aren't independent, anymore, and it seems they even have to farm out the processing of their emotions to collectives, rather than deal with it in a self-reliant manner. Whatever happened to the "right to privacy" I've heard so much about, since it seems few people actually exercise it--except to kill their kid. I notice these seemingly little things in our lives tell us a lot about the state of our culture, and they add up to some big trends.