When we're forced to deal with such irrational events as 200 dead in the recent attack in Spain, it's all to easy to forget that these people, who were innocently going about their daily routine, leave behind grieving spouses and partners, children who will never again know that parent, parents who will take the pain of a predeceased child to their grave. Scores of living victims will deal with the horrors of lingering injuries, both physical and emotional, for the balance of their lives.
I guess that we ~have~ to deal with such large numbers of victims as abstractions, in order to continue in our day to day lives. But, we can't think that way, or it will keep happening over and over again. We have to understand the human cost of these horrific events if they're ever to be stopped.
My thoughts go out to the victims (both deceased and alive) and their families. My thoughts go to the country of Spain. My thoughts go to humanity, who continues to kill members of its own species for the most frivolous of reasons.
-frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT - Spain suffers Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:30:42 +0200
Hi!
C> I remember feeling a deep sympathy with America over 911. I would just C> like to register a similar sympathy here over the tragic events here in C> Europe. Although not on the same scale as the New York travesty, the C> confusion and sorrow is no less powerful.
C> I know our Spanish friends are shocked and concerned at the moment, and C> surely our hearts go out to them at this time.
Cotty, at al, let me join you in expressing my deep sympathy to the people of Madrid who lost their close ones.
Let it be clear - even a death of one person from such an event like that in Madrid is most sorrowful. No one deserves to die or be injured from the terrorist attack. No one!
Boris - from the country that is bleeding since it has been founded.
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