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Why be silent
Shout, speak up do something
All over the world ALL OVER THE WORLD people are getting killed every single day why should I sit here and be silent about 33 in the US when every day more are dying much more than that people starve, children loose their lives from land mines people die!
You the silent sit there in your comfortable houses and cry how terrible it is that you have lost 33 well how terrible is it that hundreds die every day in another country?
Maybe you can be silent but I can't
Here are some numbers for you to look at
From 1957 to 1973, the National Liberation Front assassinated 36,725 South Vietnamese
Journalists killed in Iraq - 98, 61 by murder and 37 by acts of war
Civilian Workers Killed in Iraq - 516
Casualties in WW1 - 11,016,000
Most casualties in WW1 -Germany 1,800,000
Casualties in WW2 -59,028,000
Most casualties in WW2 -Soviet Union -25,568,000
More figures here
National days
Hiroshima -6 August - Death toll of atomic bomb 80,000
Anzac Day - 25th April
Bastille Day - July 14th
National day of mourning
Canada - 28th April
Solomon Islands - April 2nd
Bombings
Nairobi, Kenya -8th August 1998 -224 killed
Bali - October 12th 2002 - 202 killed
London - 7th July 2005 - 56 killed
Every country in the world has lost hundreds of people either to war or disasters They do not sit silent doing nothing just because 33 where killed they do not have a national day for that no they mourn the passing of millions! Bombs go off, guns fire every day somewhere in the world hundreds are killed
Sorry but I will not be silent
Monday, April 30, 2007
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I am in total agreement with you Missy. We live in ONE world, and we are all related. Any death, be it one or one hundred or one thousand, is one too many when it is caused by apathy, violence or hatred. It hurts me just as much to know that a child is starving in Ethiopia as it does to know a child is starving on the reservation here in South Dakota. At some point, we have to begin to see ourselves as brothers and sisters and caretakers for each other. Special days of honoring are nice, but they don't heal the world and they don't save lives. Reaching out and getting involved does! It isn't enough to survive, we must CARE!
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