A Monument is a Reminder–Not Just of the Past but of the Future As Well

By Joseph M. Valenzano, Jr. In the September 2 edition of the New York Times, Melissa Eddy wrote a story about a new monument in Berlin, Germany recognizing the 300-plus thousands of people with mental illness and intellectual disabilities who were systematically murdered by the Nazis prior to and during World War II. We are reminded that these were among the first innocent, defenseless people to be killed by a regime whose atrocities and unspeakable […]