Coming up on the 80th Anniversary of Krysatallnacht. LA Times has an interesting article on some of its reverberations on the U.S. West Coast not long after the vibrant events across Germany in late 1938.

As to the week-old event at the Tree Of Life in Pittsburg, I think the response across America and the world, including here in Anchorage, has shown that our society is not their society (and according to the LA Times, it never was).

And hopefully, over great time and tremendous losses in blood and treasure, the world has learned a few things, hopefully, enough things.