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Re: A question of remembrance...
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Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:35:31 GMT
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Shiri Dori wrote:
> Firstly: once the personal accounts of these people are reduced to a mere
> statistic, it is *so* hard to remember that each one of those was a living,
> breathing person with emotions and personal plights and that *each one* of
> them went through horrible, horrible things. What's 6 million? 10 million?
> 600,000? Incomprehensible numbers.
I strongly agree. I remember a good sentence from some important
personality in history, but can't remember who is him right now.
"Death of a person is tragedy. Death of a thousand people is
statistics."
When you start to think about it as a thousand different tragedies (by
realizing the think just you said above, i.e. all of the people had a
life, individually) all the things start to change.
I deeply realized that during the enormous earthquake that shook Turkey
in 1999. Anatolia is an earthquake region. And our people suffered from
earthquakes before, in my life time, not that big, but always causing
several hundred people to die. It was just a sad news subject and some
aid material that we can manage to collect and send to the ones in need,
without so much emotion. But in 1999, The Big One hits very near to us.
And for the first time, I went for the aids personally, especially for
rescue purposes, since the area affected is so wide, all hands needed to
do the job. When I personally see the people affected, by many means, it
is not just a statistics anymore. In Turkey, living conditions are
harsh, and the quality of life is not so high. Owning a decent home
requires a hard work of decades. While we are searching living people
under collapsed buildings (and there were thousands of them) and started
to dig to reach them, I very deeply realized that we are throwing away a
life worth of material away with our shovels and pickaxes, not just the
concrete and stone. Happy photographs, clothing, any kind of personal
things that make you realize there was a person/a family before. And
they had their own lives.
> Armenian (early 20th century - how many people know about that
> but Armenians? Who talks about that?).
Actually too many people talks about that last one. And unfortunately
many misguided ones. As you already said your message, very correctly,
there is usually a difference between YourStory and HiStory. I don't
want to turn the thread a different one, but if
you want to hear the subject from a different view (a view of the other
participant of the subject) I have some words to say.
Selçuk
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