The Voyages of Erik the Red
and Leif Erikson in the 9th-10th centuries.
During the 9th century, the Vikings colonized Shetlands, the Faroes and Iceland. In the 10th century Erik the Red founded two Viking settlements in southern Greenland. His son Leif Eriksson is said to have landed on the island of Newfoundland around the year 1000.
This is why we punch Nazis. This is why this vile ideology must be stamped out viciously every time it tries to come out of its hole.
Never. Again.
And these are just their names, places of birth, and places of death. Doesn’t even contain the lives and loves and joys and fears and everything else each person’s universe was that they cut down.
When I was in university, every Holocaust remembrance day the local Hillel would offer sign ups for people who wanted to come read the names aloud in the middle of campus for ten minutes, keeping the reading going for 24 hours. I went and did a reading once, but I know people who read for hours when they didn’t get enough sign-ups.
Antisemitism is higher in the US this year than it has been in a long time. Please, never again.
“Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren’t paying any attention… They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason.”
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