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Question: How can we put faces on the children killed in war? CPNN article: Numbers
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Posted: April 29 2003,20:53

(continuation of report, Other People's Kids):

And let me tell you, you just do not turn off their electricity!  You’re supposed to turn on the night-light so they aren’t scared.  Why on earth would you cut off their electricity?!  

And you certainly don’t leave radioactive containers lying around for them to drink out of.  Or unexploded bombs for them to play with.  No, you just don’t find that in the baby-proofing manuals.  

You don’t make their moms afraid to go out for fear of being robbed and raped.  You don’t break down their door in the middle of the night and hold machine guns to their older brothers’ faces.  These are just things you don’t do to other people’s kids.

And your neighbor’s grown kids?  You ask them if they could please feed your cat and water the lawn while you’re away.  You need the money, we’ll pay you $50 for the week, that sound fair?  You ask them what colleges they’re thinking of applying to.  You nod approvingly when they say pre-med or something to do with computers.  You don’t sit by and accept the fact that their leader is sending your neighbors’ kids off to have the most unimaginably scary, sickening experience of their lives for no just cause but simply to allow some rich people in certain corporations to get even more obscenely rich.  You don’t sit in front of the TV and allow yourself to be brainwashed into thinking Saddam is connected to Osama and Iraq has weapons of mass destruction (when the facts do not support this).  You don’t just figure, well, my neighbor’s kids are worth sacrificing so we can all feel “safe from terrorists” -  freedom isn’t free! -- they keep saying this on Fox News so it must be true!  You don’t nudge these wonderful, almost-grown-up kids (you have that picture of them at their high school graduation, arms wrapped around each other - oh my gawd, check out those bangs)…you don’t nudge these sweet, almost-grown-up-but-not-quite kids who were rug rats not so long ago…you don’t nudge these guys into seeking self-worth by fighting in a war that will leave them permanently shattered and terrorized and scarred… fragile and brittle from the horror… never fully able to stop hearing the screams of scared children and the moans of dying soldier-friends… stinging with grief and guilt and trauma for the rest of their days.

These are things you don’t do to other people’s kids.  Whether they live next door to you, down the street from you, across the country or across the globe.  You just don’t do these things to other people’s kids.

by Mary Walworth
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SweetCandy
Posted: May 11 2003,16:12

My name is Candy and I am a 100% service connected disabled Gulf war veteran from the war in 1990/1991. I say that only to introduce myself as well as respond to this question. I went back to Iraq in 2001 with Veterans for Peace and saw thousands of faces of the Iraqi children. When the US and Britian decided to go back to war with Iraq, I spent days just crying out of control as those children are what I saw in my mind. There is no way for me to know if any of the kids that I met died during this last war, but it is my hope they did not. I belong to several peace groups and do go around and speaking at rallies ro where invited as well as sell a book about my story. All the proceeds from the book go to these peace organizations. Please pray or send positive thoughts to the Iraqi children. And keep doing what you can for the sake of peace. People are listening. Some lives are being changed. Just because there was a war, does not mean what we do is in vain.........Candy
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Bluebird
Posted: May 12 2003,07:35

Candy, your work is inspiring!  How can we get your book? And how can we get in touch with you to see if you can speak at a rally?  And I believe you are right that people are listening and changing.
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SweetCandy
Posted: May 12 2003,17:56

You can order your books directly from me. If mailed in the United States, it is total cost of $6.00. That is $5.00 for the book, and $1.00 covers cost of mailing them. If ordering one. Email me directly at: labratfive@yahoo.com to find out more about the books. I am willing to go on speaking engagements and that we can discuss in email as well. Please ask me about the kids in Iraq in your email and I will also send you links of groups that are in Iraq at this moment....thanks, Candy
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