When I was a kid I didn't know that much about WWII, Nazis or the holocaust. In fact, I thought the swastika was a cool pattern. Well one day after it snowed, I went outside and drew the largest damn swastika pattern you ever saw in the snow on my front lawn by ''walking'' the pattern. It was massive. The entire front lawn. Didn't think anything of it and just went back inside.
I guess some of the neighbours started calling my mom and she storms up to my room. Since my room overlooked the front lawn she looks out the window at the giant swasitka and asks me if I was ''drawing patterns on the lawn''. Yes I was I answered. I then got told how I had just offended the entire neighbourhood and about the memory of 6 million people. She made me go outside and sweep the snow from the lawn with a broom.
Looking back it was innocent at the time. But still very stupid to do.
|