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Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
Fri Sep 9, 2016, 06:20 AM Sep 2016

Starving Child Because of War.... not new.....very sad....

Last edited Fri Sep 9, 2016, 07:41 AM - Edit history (2)

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7f07f3edadb74476b1671c2159c81579/nigeria-facing-famine-unlike-any-we-have-ever-seen

In the early 70s, (I think it was 1970 or 71) I put up a picture of a starving baby with a starving mom in my high school classroom . (I taught history in the public schools) It was a picture from Life Magazine that had been seen by millions.. It was a full page picture, and it was sad. I clearly recall thinking that because of some war, these people were going through hell. People were starving, children were starving, and here was proof..

Also, there was a deep feeling inside me, that this would be the end of this insanity...That this should not happen again...Ever..... By the 1970s, I also thought, (and the memory of that thought is real) that we had advanced so far, that we could end pictures like that, and perhaps we would move forward from that...That this... starving of children due to war, ... did not need to happen again...Ever...!!

I was wrong.
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