I look at Burma, I look at the earthquake in China, I look at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I look at the seemingly nonsensical killings on our streets….death seems to surround us. There is part of me that sees the world almost getting used to death on a large scale….then there is another […]
When will we as a world stop causing families so much pain, so much suffering? When will we be able to live together again, instead of taking life away….. My tears flowed when I heard about Jason Hubbard and his family.
“A US soldier has been withdrawn from Iraq after his two brothers were killed in […]
Each day I watch the news, today I see the US have now lost 3,706 soldiers in Iraq, the figures in Afghanistan are rising, when will it ever end? I think the world needs my mum - she would be great at sitting down all the leaders, banging her fists on the table, telling them […]
I continue to feel guilty about the effect of war on the world and also the effect on families. I don’t mean this post to be a political comment - far from it, whether the war is right or wrong is irrelevant to the families that are suffering loss. For me it is about how […]
Following on from my last post on how my heart bleeds for the widows/widowers of the Iraq soldiers I have just read at the Washington Post that there have been
- As of Thursday, July 5, 2007, at least 3,591 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in […]
I wish, as a world that we could find peace, find a way of living together rather than dying together. Death is always painful but for me, death through war seems wrong. My heart aches when I read about the widows of soldiers and cannot imagine their feelings. As civilians that benefit from others giving […]
We live in a world in which conflict is almost a “given”. I cannot imagine what the wives, husbands, partners of our armed forces are going through but I salute them.
Grief is an extremely powerful emotion, but what must it be like to be waving your loved one off - not knowing if you will […]
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