They absolutely DO do it at the Holocaust Museum in L.A., and the cards with small biographies are available online as well--I used them with 8th grade students a couple of years ago.

I'm not sure what Veil's problem is, unless he just thinks 10 is too young but 12 is OK. Might have a point, but I think the average 10-year-old could handle this pretty well. You simply concentrate on learning the child's life. Their death is only mentioned, never studied in depth. No big deal, and it would actually mean something to them.

When I was a kid, I fell during a camping trip and sprained my right middle finger. We went to a local clinic and they splinted it.

The next day we went to Six Flags. My mom and I are roller-coaster fans, so we always rode together while dad and my sister watched from the exciting park benches. I was doing pretty well until we rode "The Ninja" and I forgot everything, throwing both hands up in fists as we passed the camera. You see where this is going, right?

I felt like I'd just flashed a gun at the President. Two guys in dark suits confronted me as I left the ride and started to hustle me off somewhere. I didn't even realize what the problem was, and the only reason they stopped to tell me was that I had my middle-aged, very proper mom right there, demanding to know what was going on.

In their defense, they probably hadn't realized the lady next to me was my mom, because what little boy would flip off the cameras with his mom sitting right there?

Me and my friend Splinty, that's who.