I remember back in a church I used to live in
this kid named Joseph. The year was, oh, I say 1935-36. He was such a
delightful laid back kid when I first met him,
He was always by himself playing jumping jacks and other games in which he could play by
himself. He did not have to play by
himself but he would for some reason always reject our offers that myself and
the other kids there made to him. We
would ask him if he would want to play tag or hide-and-go-seek but it was as he
was mute, ignoring us for no reason.
Like a year later I learned that his parents
had abandoned him at the step, of the church in which we all stayed, when he
was only five years of age. Joey never
talked about his parents, it was like he was still mad at them. He never understood that his parents were
poor and could not carry the burden of taking care of him. His parents thought they were doing the right
thing by dropping him off at this church which was SUPPOSED to take care of him
so that he could grow up with a normal life.
In 1936 it was hard growing up in Germany. In the town we lived in there was never
peace, the nuns would not tell us that, but we knew we all knew, accept for
little Joseph. Nazi's would come in the
church and try to teach us their "superior" ways. None of us fell for it, except Joseph. I guess he had no other place to turn to, so
he slowly sank into these idiotic ways.
About three years later the now 12 years old
little boy was a nazi himself and the one of his kind in that church. He still would play by himself. No one liked him anymore and never asked him
to play. Instead he would ask us, but
now we would refuse.
One day in 1939 he got so sick of us
"inferior" people in the church so he left. What he did not know and
what most of us did not know was that there was a battle just a town away. The nuns never told us about World War
II. They always said in the sweetest
voice "The world is such a peaceful place." Well, Joseph unknowingly went to this town in
search for a new place to live. But
stepping into this town was like slitting your wrist. Anyway a Jewish man saw him with his swastika
on his arm. This obviously made the Jew
mad. The two of them brawled about for
at least an hour, but when the fight was over the Jew came out on top, simply
because he had a knife in which he used to stab the innocent young child at
least 20 times in the chest. Another
nazi saw this happening, he later on killed the Jew. His life ended because of
superiority...I guess superiority cannot always save your life or make it
better than someone else's, because now
they both are resting and surely not in peace.
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