My Apology and Explanation

I had a dream last night about an actual incident that happened to me when I was six years old. The other kids in the neighborhood would not play with me and called me a dirty German Nazi and it hurt me deeply. You have to remember the time, this was right after the end of WWII and sediments were high against anyone with a German surname. Even some of my relatives had been placed in Internments camps. I promised myself back then that I would be the type of man that fought against injustices. I feel I have done that most of my life. But I have come to realize that I have become unmindful of the feeling of other groups of people. I have been callous and made jokes that have probably hurt others. For that neglect I sincerely apologize and will do my best to be mindful of the feeling of others. Please believe that this was not done intentionally. I am about two generations older than most of the people at iFixit. I grew up in a totally different America and region. I’m an old man now and I sit at a work bench alone with very little interaction with the outside world with the exception of this site. I have felt close to you and thought of you as my family. I would ask that I be judged by my intentions to try to help people, as demonstrated over the last eight years rather than by my faults. If we stop talking to each other we destroy any chance of living together in this world. If no one tells me how I have offended or wronged someone else but I only get faced with hostility I have to guess what I have done. So I believe if we continue talking to each other we can solve most issues.