A Sad Day for Planet Earth

January 09, 2009

You ever get a knot in your stomach when you see pictures of baby elephants standing over their dead mothers, killed by poachers?

I can't read the news from Gaza any more. The mental image I formulated in my mind as I read today's Associated Press News article broke my heart.

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During a three-hour pause in the fighting
to allow in food and fuel and let medics
collect the dead, nearly three dozen bodies
were found beneath the rubble of bombed out
buildings in Gaza City.

Many of the dead were in the same neighborhood
where the international Red Cross said rescue
workers discovered young children too weak to
stand who had stayed by their dead mothers.
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People read about the tragedies and atrocites of history somehow feeling that the people back then were worse than people today. I wish it were true.

-- Greg