Lessons of Give and Take

I saw an article in this week's issue of The Week, of which I am a religious reader, about an incident in Groton Massachussetts last week. To grasp the enormity of the Holocaust, students in Groton and Dunstable began collecting pennies this year. The goal was to collect 1.5 million pennies - one for each child who perished in the Nazi genocide - a number that still, to this days, shocks and amazes me. The count had reached 270,000 pennies when someone noticed that nearly half the coins had beeen stolen! Devastated, the students put out an appeal, and local residents and businesses donated their pennies in droves - the students reached their goal in just four days. Certainly a lesson of give and take....and food for thought.