Schindler’s List is a movie that though I had heard much about, I had never seen. I don’t know if it was out of lack of interest for the subject, fear of the reportedly graphic scenes, or just the knowledge of its length that I avoided the film, but I did. I can remember when I was in 8th grade hearing an announcement over the loudspeaker that all of the seniors had to …showed first 75 words of 1191 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1191 total…s almost as if we don’t learn or don’t care. I don’t know who could watch a film such as this and not be affected, and yet these things go on. Schindler was a good man and he did a great thing, but what still stays in the back of my mind is all those, like the one-armed man and the little girl in the red coat, that he couldn’t save.