Yesterday we went to the Holocaust Museum for the Anne Frank exhibit. Everything about it was sobering. From entering a place where a shooting had taken place at the opening, going through security and then going through the exhibit itself. Realizing there are still such high emotions involved for some people. Mickey and I had a personal tour guide who shared some incredible knowledge. We found out as well that the chestnut tree that Anne saw from her attic window has had 11 saplings taken from it and donated to cities around the world. Seattle was a city chosen for one of them. The sapling will be planted in the Peace Garden at the Seattle Center and dedicated on May 1st.
They were handing out stickers that said, *Change begins with me.* That is a phrase I have always believed in. I don't think it is enough to hope for change. I feel that I must take action. While there I also got a *worry stone* that has been engraved with the words, Take Action. Sadly, we still face a world that sees race, religion and skin colors, etc instead of seeing valuable human life first.
Anne Frank was just a young girl writing in her diary. Writing her thoughts with a voice far beyond her years. An interview with her father after the war showed him saying that after reading his daughter's diary, he realized that he saw a completely different girl from the child he saw every day that they were hidden away. Outwardly, she never showed her family what she was truly thinking or going through. Instead, she put it all in her diary. Her dream was to be a writer/journalist. That is what made the decision for her father to publish her works. Although she was gone from this world, it was his act of love for his daughter, making her dream come true.
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