... 1942 (65 years ago today), on orders of the Vichy government that ruled after France fell to the Nazis in World War II, French police rounded up at least 13,000 citizens of Jewish heritage -- including more than 4,000 children -- and detained them in Paris' Vélodrome d'hiver (left), the Winter Velodrome not far from the Eiffel Tower. Of them, "not 1 child or woman escaped death at Auschwitz,"although 40 men did survive. Oon this date in 1995, President Jacques Chirac acknowledged police responsibility for the incident, known as le rafle du Vel d'Hiv..... 1946, the only Member of Congress to have voted against post-9/11 military action in Afghanistan, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Cal.), was born in El Paso, Texas.
