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Show HILLTOP TIMES 8 TIMES April 22, 2010 Above, audience members listen to proceedings at the Days of Remembrance event held in the Chapel Annex on April 14. Right, keynote speaker Eileen Hailet Stone, an oral historian and author, addresses those gathered. Stone has written a book on Holocaust events and interviewed survivors and other eye-witnesses to the discovery of the camps by U.S. soldiers and others. Below, an audience member wears a Jewish yarmulke, or kippah, as he sits in the audience. ALEX R. LLOYD/U.S. Air Force FREEDOM From page 1 change to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again," said the event's guest speaker, Eileen Hailet Stone, an oral historian and author who also writes a monthly Living History column for a Salt Lake newspaper. "We need to teach how this happened and when it happened," said Stone. "As for the 'why,' there is still no answer for that, but every year we must teach diversity, tolerance and acceptance. It is important to teach these things to kids and to other people. Otherwise, it could happen again." However, as noted in the video, "Why We Re- Visit it > utahfind I ii ivi ivcom restaurants ] services | whatever tee to aid the freedoms represented by the U.S. military uniform. "It is my duty (as a U.S. Air Force chaplain) to facilitate the free exercise of religion among U.S. military personnel." Brown added that spreading the message of the April 14 event is also an opportunity for Team Hill to "look in the mirror and become better citizens." "It helps us to reflect on our attitudes and the future, and to know that what I do matters it matters to our leadership, also," he said. During her recollection of first-hand accounts of survivors Stone interviewed while compiling her book, "A Homeland in the West:/. Utah Jews Remember," Stone noted that many'; Jews survived the Holocaust due to efforts '*: made by non-Jewish citizens. Although many-: survivors never knew the names of their sav-;: iors who provided them food, shelter and es- -. cape at the threat of death, Stone noted their •*• efforts were not in vain. •: Alex Shapiro, who serves as vice president and board member of the I.J. and Jeanne Wag:;; ner Jewish Community Center in Salt Lake City, attended the event and emphasized the urgency of maintaining the memory of the Holocaust >• atrocities. "We are coming near the end of the,: line of the (Holocaust) witnesses. We need they next generation to continue this message." :~ Shapiro's father, Joel, served as a U.S. soldier during World War II and saw the concentration camps firsthand. His accounts are also fea- ;" tured in Stone's book. y In the concluding remarks of the event, > Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Kenneth Crooks, 75th ABW<S chaplain, reiterated, "The scripture exhorts u"s> to remember. It is important to remember; if >;£' we don't history will keep repeating itself." >~; "\ joined the military for many different reasons, but one of them being that the uniform represents freedom and everything America represents. That is everything that is against what the Holocaust represented." 2ND LT. JASON HOLZMAN, 416th Supply Chain Management Squadron member," produced by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and displayed during the April 14 event, genocide continues to plague countries such as Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur. The past and current threats of genocide inspired many to join the U.S. military and proactively deter these threats, including 2nd Lt. Jason M. Holzman, who currently serves in Hill's 416th Supply Chain Management Squadron. "I joined the military for many different reasons, but one of them being that the uniform represents freedom and everything America represents," said Holzman. "That is everything that is against what the Holocaust represented. 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