When I was growing up, in a time-frame not all that far removed from the Second World War, it wasn’t uncommon for people to ask ourselves “What would I have done if I’d been an average German citizen during the Nazi era? Would I have had the courage to hide a Jewish person? To protest?”
A Letter from a Mama Bear on Behalf of her Children
Current national news have you feeling low? Imagine a disabled vet stopping a conversation about politics with a friend in order to lay on the floor and breathe to avoid a panic attack. Think what it must be like as a career federal employee, anxious to open their morning email for fear of another message from some unknown source describing how they could be fired. Are you wringing your hands? What must it do to someone in the LGBTQ community to worry that a co-worker might out them in order to save their own job.
