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Wild Lion*esses Pride from Jay's avatar

Armand,

This is an incredibly generous and deeply thoughtful reflection. You wove together history, personal experience, and the moral weight of remembering in a way that feels like an extension of the work I tried to do with this documentary.

Buchenwald’s horror stands in stark contrast to Weimar’s intellectual and artistic legacy, and you captured that juxtaposition with clarity and urgency. The depth of your historical knowledge, the personal connections, the way you carried this into the present—this is the kind of conversation that keeps history alive and relevant.

Your words mean the world to me.

Thank you for sharing my work with such care, for honoring these stories, and for making sure more people see what needs to be seen. I’m grateful beyond words.

Jay

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Armand Beede's avatar

Wild Lion*esses from Jay: You have created a worthy tour, memorializing with love and respect each person who came to Buchenwald with fear, but whose eyes should have enabled them to absorb beauty and to nourish hope.

It is an excruciating terror, and your gifts make so present the memory and the mandate -- NEVER AGAIN!

Thank you so very much for creating this work of art that stands next to Anselm Kiefer.

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Dr. Deborah Hall's avatar

Armand

your huge heart fills the room

as I read each of your loving words

honoring all the innocent

beautiful souls

who were murdered

by the sadists

thank you for giving tribute

to brave Jay

for being witness of each one

and bringing them home to us

to hold close forever

as we face yet another onslaught

of the same

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Armand Beede's avatar

Dr. Deborah Hall: Yours is a wonderful column, that I recommend to everyone.

We are, we are, we are living in times that bring back Jim Crow and Bull Connor.

My greatest fear is the mistreatment of immigrants.

I feel so helpless in the face of the State's iron-fist, but I try to join with friends like you in ensuring our youth are not poisoned in values by the Trump-Brownshirts.

With all of the IT-Platform's faults - quite visible to me -- this Platform, Substack, provides a meeting ground to share core values of liberty, the dignity of each human person (without exception), the protection of healthcare for all (definitely at the top: girls and women); the safety and due process afforded each human person; and the distribution of goods such that an honest working person can, through reasonable labor, provide all necessities for a family and save for retirement.

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