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I am a CNN fanatic. I love their online site and their cable news network. Their coverage of the recent Presidential campaign and election was the most fair and unbiased coverage I could find anywhere. Their online articles always include links to additional information on the subject at hand, if available. They even had ‘fact checker’ links allowing the reader to go to the actual articles cited so you could read the quotes and decide for yourself if news coverage was being fair and accurate. It appears they work extremely hard to maintain perspective on the events and news they cover so they can deliver the NEWS, not the OPINION, to us.

Because today is Veteran’s Day, CNN online has posted articles covering observances throughout the US. One article focuses on the experiences of Anthony Acevedo, who was a 20-year-old medic during WWII. Mr. Acevedo was captured during the Battle of the Bulge on January 6, 1945 and spent the next four months in a Nazi prison camp. The horrors he witnessed and the pain of those memories have lived with him ever since.

Those horrors were added to by our own military, which demanded he and other military survivors liberated from the prison camp sign a pledge never to speak of the things they witnessed to any of the media, ever. Reasons of ‘security’ were raised as the excuse to remain silent, and the threat of disciplinary action insured the pledges were kept. At the age of 84, Mr. Acevedo is finally speaking out, fearing that the story will never be known otherwise.

In this day and time when some teach that the Holocaust never happened, I feel deep gratitude to CNN for giving national attention to this particular story. As our veterans and others who lived through WWII pass away, eventually there will be no one left who can deliver a first-hand account of those awful times. We MUST remember that it DID happen, but we can’t remember if we never hear or learn about it in the first place.

You can read Mr. Acevedo’s story HERE.