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ST. GEORGE NEIGHBORHOODS FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 15, 2013 THE SPECTRUM 3 www.thespectrum.com Remembering the children of the Lidice massacre "Their story is important enough that it should not be allowed to become forgotten." Al Cooper Home Country and central image in the town of Phillips, home to a once largely immigrant Czech population. There is, I devoutly believe, no greater manifestation of pure evil than the murder of innocent children, who are so recently introduced to life on planet Earth. The bronze masterpiece created by Marie Uchytilova overlooking the place where Lidice once stood holds the power to break my heart and bring tears to my eyes. Al Cooper is a radio talk show host and motivational speaker.

He can be reached at assassination of Hitler's favorite protege, Reinhard Heydrich, to at least 1,350. Rather than keeping the massacre under wraps, which had been the case in similar outrages across Europe, the Nazis encouraged the worldwide publicity of the Lidice affair, trumpeting the power of their mastery over occupied lands and peoples. It had an opposite effect, and monuments and memorial gardens sprang up in places as distant as England, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Bulgaria and the United States. In America, a Lidice monument remains today a proud A bronze statue created by Marie Uchytilova overlooks the place where Lidice once stood and pays tribute to the 82 children who lost their lives In the massacre that was the Nazi's retaliation of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. submitted photo Dr.

Kelly J. Olsen and the staff of Red Cliffs Dental are excited to announce the addition of DR. JON GARDNER For an important part of my business life, I was involved in the art and craft of memorialization and connected with a wide range of projects around the country designed to help us remember people, events and places from our past. As I consider all this on this particular summer day in 2013, 1 have in front of me a photograph of what is one of the saddest but most evocative examples of that craft I can think of. It links together in a bonding of fine bronze, which speaks of the eternities to come, 82 children who forfeited their young and innocent lives 71 years ago in the cauldron of a war they had no part in.

The monument stands today overlooking a place in the Czech Republic where the ancient town of Lidice had stood since the 14th century. Their story is important enough that it should not be allowed to become forgotten. If you were to line up the elite of Hitler's killing machine, the very masters of the murderous plan that was christened "The Final Solution" and succeeded in bringing about the cold-hearted, calculated and wholesale execution of close to 10 million European civilians in the name of national cleansing during World War II, a man named Reinhard Hey-drich would stand at the head of such a lineup. A Jew-hating, stone-hearted and arrogant Nazi zealot who prided himself on inventing the efficient killing system (known as the Reinhard Plan) that Dr. Gardner grew up in Price, Utah and served a two year mission in the Eastern Caribbean.

He graduated from the Medical College of VirginiaCommonwealth University Dental School in 1996 and owned a practice located in Riverton, Utah for 14 years where he focused on general and cosmetic dentistry as well as neuromuscular dentistry and TMJ issues. He is married to Shana and they have 4 daughters who keep them very busy. Dr. Jon was a competitive cyclist for 20 years, enjoys motorcycle riding and supporting and watching his girls in what they love to do. He is currently accepting new patients and is accepting all insurance.

He would love to meet you and your family! saw its zenith at Treblin-ka, Chelmno and Sobibor, he was dispatched by Heinrich Himmler to what is today The Czech Republic as Hitler's Reich Protector of BohemiaMoravia. On May 27, 1942, two Czech patriots trained in England and parachuted into their occupied homeland carried out a somewhat flawed assassination attempt on Heydrich as he motored through the outskirts of Prague in his open Mercedes. When their target died from his wounds several days later, Hitler ordered that 13,000 Czechs, including women and children, be killed in reprisal. In the search for the two Allied shooters, 36,000 homes were searched by a team of 21,000 SS men before the two were found and shot. Although the village of Lidice (Liditz in German) was innocent of any connection with the assassins, it was arbitrarily selected for destruction by Himmler.

The town's men, numbering at least 192, were lined up and shot in groups. Also, 60 women, including four whose pregnancies were first violently terminated, were carted away to be killed elsewhere. Saddest of all, the 82 children (42 girls and 40 boys), ranging in age from 1 to 16, were taken to the killing camp at Chelmno, where they were summarily executed. A few children deemed acceptable for Germanization were given to Nazi SS families, and their eventual stories were lost to history. Once the people were gone, the town was burned and blown into dust by explosives.

Every domestic animal and pet and even the bodies in the town's cemetery were disinterred and burned so that no sign of Lidice was left. Two weeks later, the nearby town of Lezky was also destroyed, bringing the number of Czech civilians who paid with their lives for the PLEASE CALL iBum'mimiwiiiBliCT for an appointment..