With the recent fatal shooting of a museum guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, there is reason to revive and remember a sad chapter in history. The 39-year-old security guard Stephen T. Johns probably did not expect to be killed by an elderly man when he opened the door for him and most people would have probably thought the elderly 88-year-old James Von Brunn a harmless old man at first glance.
Yet Johns, who we’ve heard little about in the news, is dead and von Brunn is expected to live. Von Brunn wrote: “The Holocaust is a lie. Obama was created by Jews. Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do. Jews captured America’s money. Jews control the mass media.”
According to a Washington Post article, Johns was called “Big John” and characterized as a gentle giant, a man who stood over six-feet tall. He left behind an 11-year-old son and had recently remarried. He had spent a year in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Johns had opened the door for von Brunn to let him in. For those that don’t know, Johns was African American. The attack wasn’t entirely unexpected: the guards had asked for protective vests earlier, but the vests were not issued.
The tragedy should remind us all that there is a reason to remember the European Holocaust and the failure of people, including Americans to act.
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