Posted by partlycloudy on July 22, 2004, at 19:55:41
It changed the way I look at the world, every single day. I turn on the t.v. an expect to find a part of the world destroyed. Iraq, the Sudan, Afganistahn, Chechniya, they are all being consumed and the human race is in the same quagmire it was 2 centuries ago. How does this madness end? Is it human nature to ravage each other, take off each others' heads, starve each other? How could I ever want to bring a child into this word? How many generations before have thought the same as I?
I grieve for the coverage on the real news in the war in Iraq.
I grieve for objecitvity in our media.
I grieve for the families who have lost sons, daughters, wives, husbands, mothers and fathers in this war and whose dead are not honoured at least by the coverage of their arrival on home soil, nor their committment to the ground and to g*d.
I greive for the theft of the human face of war.I grew up with my mother turning off the t.v. every time coverage of Viet Nam came on, saying that I didn't have to know about war. Well, I'm afraid I did. Everyone needs to know the human cost of war, anywhere, whether just, by our standards, or not.
War costs human lives and we cannot greive for them properly if they are hidden from view.
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