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In reply to the discussion: Bless Chris Hedges! [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)I remember some of the names of those children. They were hard to find, because we here in the US are not allowed to see those bodies or know their names, but a few brave journalists, and they were brave, humanized some of our 'collateral damage' at risk to themselves sometimes.
They were witnesses to the fact that human beings had died, and I thank them for that.
One I will never forget, named Ali, one of the first victims of our 'shock and awe' lost his entire family on the first night of bombing, while here in the US, the cheering was deafening. I don't know where he is now, grown up and in his late teens or early twenties, an innocent victim. Just one of so, so many.
Our foreign policies need to be changed. The killing needs to stop. I haven't changed, Hedges hasn't changed, but something has.