http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/27/why-ioc-will-never-memorialize-72-munich-massacre/#ixzz2213K9LbF
Written by one of the sons whose father was murdered. The details he shares of the atrocities committed and the organizers position is enough for me to say no more.
I have no desire to show support to a reprehensible and vile organization! Ask your daughter to read and share. Most thinking people will find it revolting.
I contrasted it in my own mind with the story of Luz Long. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luz_Long
Long was a Dusseldorf lawyer, who finished second to Jesse Owens at the 1936 Nazi games. After the standings were posted, and Owens took a victory lap around the stadium, Long ran along side of him and looped his arm around Owen's waist, to rabid cheers from the crowd. In Long's last letter to Owens before the War, he asked Jesse, if he had the opportunity after the War to meet his son, to tell him how it could be among men on this earth.
Long was injured in the Allied invasion of Sicily and died in a British military hospital.
In the 1950’s Owens wrote a letter to Long's son and told him how his father had helped to keep him from being disqualified during the initial heats of the long jump. The story is almost certainly apocryphal, but it says something positive about Jesse Owens, as well as Herr Long.
I have absolutely no interest or inclination to watch the Olympics this year.
Typically sickening behavior by another “International” organization. From the UN to the Nobel Committee to the IOC, I have no use for any of them. I’ll throw in NBC with their PC palavering in place of actually showing the events.
From your link:
“Now, I have a message to all the members of the IOC. The torture inflicted by “Black September” on the 11 Israeli athletes and their families took 48 hours. Your torture of the families and the memories of those esteemed athletes has lasted 40 years. I am not satisfied with a moment of silence in every Opening Ceremony of the Summer Games. Now I want all of you to lose your jobs and be replaced by real Olympians who care about the athletes and believe in the Olympic charter.”