Azaleas and other miracles, US National Arboretum

 Beauty. 

Ruth!

Photographed at the US National Arboretum.

Little girl with an umbrella

 

Photographed at the National Arboretum in Washington DC.

Mourning dove chicks

As in past years, a family of mourning doves has nested on a ladder adjacent to my yard. 

These two little ones are growing fast.

Yom HaShoah/ March of the Living

Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day.

Thirty-one years ago today in 1990, I was covering the first full March of the Living. Now an annual program, it was the first time a large contingent of Jews had been back in Poland to visit the Nazi extermination camps of Majdanek, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Warsaw Ghetto, and other sites since the end of World War II. Several thousand Jewish youth from around the world participated.

It was a profoundly moving experience.

Remember. 

Never again.

Elie Wiesel