War's Agony, by Larry James
From Larry James' Urban Daily at www.UrbanDaily.org:
Recent reports on the near-fatal injury and miraculous recovery of ABC World News Tonight co-anchor Bob Woodruff have focused new attention on the serious nature of injuries sustained by thousands caught up in the war in Iraq.
Woodruff and his camera man, Doug Vogt were critically wounded when a roadside bomb ripped through their vehicle. Woodruff sustained traumatic brain injury that left him in a comma for weeks.
Last Tuesday evening ABC News aired a touching story about his experience in Iraq and the journey he and his wife and family endured on the road to his recovery.
Bob and Lee Woodruff have written a the book about their experience: In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing. You can order a copy by clicking on the Amazon.com link in the right margin of this page. I'm betting it will be an important and moving read.
Woodruff's experience forces us to face the horrors of the war. His latest report intends to bring new attention to all who sustain traumatic brain injuries while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I wonder how many of us stop on a regular basis to consider the cost of the conflict and the suffering that continues day after day on the other side of the world?
Over 3,100 U. S. soldiers have been killed.
Tens of thousands have come home wounded and scarred for life.
Thousands and thousands of Iraqi citizens, including huge numbers of women and children, have lost their lives and significant multiples of these numbers have sustained serious, life-altering injuries, including traumatic brain injury.
The war is horrible, beyond horrible.
Can we pray today for peace?
At least for today, can stop and pray for a new way through to a day of peace and reconciliation?
Please pray for peace during this one Sunday.
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Could we really be on the same page?
Dear NYG,
You wrote:
"Man, the more things changes, the more they stay the same--that is, unless we do something."
DO SOMETHING are the two words that I heard in my heart when I saw the photo of George of Beit Jala that was published in the CentraL Florida Catholic newspaper in 2000
And because of those persistent two words:
DO SOMETHING
I did:
It is George's photo that graces the banner of WAWA:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
And he and those two words that I hear in my heart all the time:
DO SOMETHING
Led me to go four times to go-bear witness and write about the Christian EXODUS from the Holy Land.
Eileen Fleming,
Reporter and Editor of
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Author "KEEP HOPE ALIVE" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" to be released Feb. 2007
How Things Never Really Change
As I write this comment I am watching the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives.
What strikes me about this great movie is the recurring theme of war's aftermath; mostly how the wounds--mental as well as physicall--can still fester even after the shooting stops. I see the character of the Navy vet Homer Parish who lost his hands in the war struggling to readjust to civilian life. With that, I think our permanetly scarred troops at places such as Walter Reed. I see Fred Deary deck the sharp-tongued America-firster and it causes me to think of today's poison-tongued reactionaries such as Dinesh D'Souza and Ann Coulter.
Man, the more things changes, the more they stay the same--that is, unless we do something.