Political Quotes

“it is no secret this U.S. Senator loves history. I like to learn about history, talk about history, and preserve history. I am Iowa proud today to share a community's efforts to preserve history in my home State. Next month, a small farming town located 13 miles west of the Mississippi River will welcome a poignant relic from World War II to its local museum. An authentic rail cattle car used in the Holocaust has been meticulously refurbished in Duisberg, Germany, and is being shipped to Danville, IA. This story begins in 1939 when a local teacher named Miss Birdie Mathews organized an international pen pal exchange for her class. She gave her students a list of names from which to write a letter. Two of her students chose another pair of sisters who lived across the world in Amsterdam: Anne and Margot Frank. Juanita and Betty Wagner wrote to the Frank sisters about life on an Iowa farm. Anne Frank's letter to Juanita is dated April 29, 1940, and she also enclosed a picture card of the Amsterdam canals. Margot's letter to Betty is dated April 27, 1940. She wrote ``having a frontier with Germany and being a small country we never feel safe.'' Less than 2 weeks after these letters were written, Germany invaded the Netherlands. The Wagner sisters later recalled fearing they would never hear from their new pen pals again. Of course, history tells us the Frank sisters perished in a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen.…”