and THIS is why i believe in miracles

in the same vein as the previous story, hate crimes, neo-nazis, white power.................

WE CAN CHANGE. we CAN become human again, it IS within us

Pair Form Unlikely Team to Fight Prejudice

A former neo-Nazi and the gay man he once left bloodied on a street tell their stories at the Museum of Tolerance.
By Anna Gorman, Times Staff Writer 10:14 PM PDT, July 9, 2006
Theirs is an unlikely friendship.Timothy Zaal is a former neo-Nazi skinhead who served time behind bars on hate crime charges for assaulting an Iranian couple.
Matthew Boger is a gay man Zaal once beat unconscious on a street corner in Hollywood.More than two decades later, Zaal, 42, and Boger, 39, were brought together by their work at the Museum of Tolerance to fight hatred.After their initial shock, the two men have become friends, even turning to each other for advice and consolation. On Sunday, they sat next to each other on a museum stage and shared their story of reconciliation.Zaal, a stocky man with a goatee and tattoos, turned to Boger during the program and apologized for what he had done when they were teenagers.Boger, a much smaller man in a blazer and jeans, smiled awkwardly and responded, "But you are a good guy — now."That night in 1981, Boger was hanging out with a few friends at a hamburger stand when a group of skinheads ran toward them shouting obscenities. He remembers trying to flee to an alley, where Boger said he was trampled, punched and kicked."I came to, and all I saw was blood," Boger said...............