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moondust

(19,972 posts) Wed May 11, 2016, 12:28 AM May 2016

The migrants buried without a name.

More than 1,250 unnamed men, women and children who died trying to cross the Mediterranean to seek a new life in Europe have been buried in unmarked graves.

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36248843

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The migrants buried without a name. (Original Post) moondust May 2016 OP

No words. potone May 2016 #1

Heartbreaking.... Rhiannon12866 May 2016 #2

You won't have a name when you ride the big airplanes. Jim Lane May 2016 #3

potone

(1,701 posts)

1. No words.

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Wed May 11, 2016, 12:38 AM

May 2016

Rhiannon12866

(205,161 posts)

2. Heartbreaking....

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Wed May 11, 2016, 03:09 AM

May 2016

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)

3. You won't have a name when you ride the big airplanes.

Reply to moondust (Original post)

Wed May 11, 2016, 04:32 AM

May 2016

...or, it seems, the leaky boats in the Mediterranean.

Woody Guthrie wrote about our own people buried without a name. Here's Joan Baez doing the song:

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