What History Reveals About Separating Children From Their Parents

The Little Soldier from Nazi Germany

A Wikipedia Photograph

The boy was only ten years old when they came and took him, over the objection of his parents. They offered him food and a free uniform and he was part of the fabulous Hitler Youth Movement. He enjoyed the company of his new friends and found the marching, exercising, and even the rifle training to be great fun.

He didn't really understand why some people were inferior and had to be eliminated and that only he and his people were members of the Master Race. Like five million others his age, he was silent as the monstrous sickness of Nazi-ism overspread his land and nearly overtook the world.

But for the U.S. and its allies; most Americans over the age of 70 most likely wouldn't have made it to 25 before being reaped by the monster and his robots.

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They took him from his parents. History show us that nothing good ever comes from separating children from their families.

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The greatest teacher of all is not some quaint, bearded Harvard professor feeding pigeons on Boston Common, nor a stolid acetic in a cave subsisting on dried apricots and the bark of an old tree.  The greatest teacher of all is HISTORY ITSELF.

COPYRIGHT 2018 BY BILL RUSSO, CAPE COD, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA