"Last survivor from World Trade Center leaves hospital;" "Katrina survivor calls Aiken home;" "Hurricane survivor mourns;" "Holocaust survivor to be reunited;" "Accident survivor shares nightmare;" "Bomb survivor recalls mayhem;" "Survivor of Columbine massacre visits Raleigh" (Google). These headlines have referred to the people involved in the terrible events as survivors. But is it possible to ever fully survive such events? While people have lived through such things as the Holocaust, the World Wars, September 11th, and others, a part of the person affected gets lost forever, causing them to never fully survive.
[...] The people who lived through the Holocaust can never escape it. “Though they have survived the Holocaust, most have not escaped from the pain” (20th Century History). Some of the people who did live through such things as the Holocaust or the World Wars have blocked that time in their life out. The memory is so painful that sometimes people push it out of their memory and pretend it never happened. We subconsciously force ourselves to forget what hurt us. [...]
[...] A strong example of a victim losing part of themself and never fully surviving is during the 1970s and Argentina's “Dirty War”. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall described the “Dirty in Resisting Terror: The goal was to obliterate subversion, and this meant all-out war a dirty war, using any means . To do this they simply made people disappear into the forests and into the rivers and oceans, dropped from helicopters. In time, as many as thirty thousand Argentines would disappear, and each disappearance was concealed and denied (Ackerman 311-312). [...]
[...] This loss causes a different person returning than the person we once were; that person did not survive. Surviving historical injustices seems to go off of the idea of survival of the fittest, created in 1858 when Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace developed the concept of Natural Selection. A recent historical injustice began at 8:45 AM in New York City on September The United States of America was victim to terrorist attacks when four airplanes were hijacked and crashed in the World Trade Towers, the Pentagon, Shanksville, PA, killing close to 2,986 people. [...]
[...] Williams will always have the physical reminder of having cancer as well as the emotional reminder of losing her mother. She never really lived through the cancer and the loss of her mother because she is still living it. She is a different person than she was when it all began. The strongest example of never fully recovering or surviving in history is the Holocaust. A total of “5,860,000 Jews died in the Holocaust” (Still 94). A large population was wiped out because of hate. The Holocaust was one of the most painful and devastating events in history. [...]
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