Occasionally I like to look up dates on Wikipedia, as I did today. June 12 was not necessarily a good day in the last hundred years.
- 1940: 10,000+ British/French soldiers surrender to Germany
- 1942: Anne Frank's saga begins
- 1943: 1,000+ Jews were taken away & shot in Berezhany
- 1957: American jazz musician Jimmy Dorsey died
- 1963: Activist Medgar Evers was shot by KKK member
- 1964: Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment
- 2003: Actor Gregory Peck died
- 2007: Mr Wizard, AKA Don hebert died.
There are many more things that happened on this date through out history. Much of it was good & some not so much. However, I think sometimes we need to look back at the not so good & take heed of it. It is too easy to forget the unpleasant things in life. So, look back & take a moment to give thanks that you weren't there or that it wasn't your time. By doing this, by paying our respects, I think it frees of us to move on with our own lives with some sense of continuance.
Hopefully, your June 12 is a good one
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