Promise There's Some Good Stuff in There, Too
- But never fear—there was some good stuff throughout the 20th century.
- Those accomplishments are important, mostly because people stood up and intervened when horrible things were happening. The world wasn't just silent.
- Hopefully it means we've learned from the past, and we're not going to stand for injustice. Hopefully it means dictators around the world will learn that Americans and the rest of the free world won't tolerate terror or the suffering of children from war and disease and famine—especially when so many of them could be saved.
- Thinking of the children makes Elie Wiesel think of himself, as a young boy from the Carpathian Mountains, and how that child will always be part of him, filled with fear of the new millennium but also filled with lots and lots of hope.