small wonder: from death comes life.

So I know I've said it before, but I find it so interesting how life where so much death has taken place. Being in Lidice, a city completely obliterated by Nazis, it was unfathomable how peaceful and serene such a horrible place was. The scene was a beautiful landscape with rolling hills and covered by trees and flowers. The hills and the trees covered death and destruction unlike any other. It's odd that all that was left were a few cement blocks here and there. 

This photo was taken of the remains of the Horak Farm where all the men in the town were shot against mattresses on the wall. Every single man above the age of 15 was obliterated by three bullets, one to the head, two to the chest. After the massacre was over, they all got one more to the head for good measure. The men were shot first five at a time, but because it was going too slowly, the Nazis bumped it up to ten at a time. The men had to watch their friends and family get blown to bits then step over them to receive the same treatment, all piling up in dead-human hills at the bottom of the mattress wall. It's sick, and hard to believe such destruction took place. 

I took this photo because I really like the small sprig of plant life growing the rocks. I thought it was definitely a small wonder, even if its just a weed. It's good to know that the world can move on, and keep growing, even when humans just keep killing each other off. Ah well, such is life I suppose.