Ch. 21

What really intrigued me throughout chapter 21 was the amount of people that died in the first half of the 20^th century.  It is really hard for me to imagine that just in World War II about 60 million people died.  That amount is like obliterating almost twice the population of California which sounds horrifying.  Also the 6 million Jews that were killed is the equivalent of wiping out the entire Bay Area.  I cannot honestly even process this genocide although I’ve known for years.  It seems as though humanity sort of lost its values in the 20^th century and simply did not care over their own kind demolishing and destructing what it found on its path.  The deaths in more recent wars are only a fraction of any of the World Wars but that doesn’t mean that they hurt less.  Let’s only hope that as time progresses we learn that war is not the right way out, but only the violent, forceful way out.