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Rush lead singer Geddy Lee is the son of Holocaust survivors. The song "Red Sector A" reflects his mother's accounts of her time at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, making it one of few rock songs describing the Holocaust.

Though "Red Sector A," like much of the album from which it comes, is set in a bleak, apocalyptic future, what Lee calls "the psychology" of the song comes directly from a story his mother told him about the day she was liberated.

"I once asked my mother her first thoughts upon being liberated," Lee says during a phone conversation. "She didn't believe [liberation] was possible. She didn't believe that if there was a society outside the camp how they could allow this to exist, so she believed society was done in."

from How the Holocaust rocked Rush front man Geddy Lee


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I saw War of the Worlds this afternoon. I'm glad I saw it in the theater, because it will not have the same impact on the TV screen.

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Edit. Personally, I believe the PG-13 rating is a bit misleading; this movie is more disturbing than that rating would suggest.

Edit 2. Expanda few more spoilerish points, added a few hours later )

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