Wednesday, September 23, 2015

I Don't See a March Coming in a Month, But Wish There Were One

   Would we were so tender in our feelings toward others, as a nation, that we when we saw an injustice such as this, we would mark the day for years to come.
   We mark 9-11, and this would not be as big, but it would be wonderful if we did, as a nation, mark the dates and remember such things as that Oct. 24 2012 day when 8-year-old Nabila Rehman, her siblings,and their grandmother were picking okra near their home in Pakistan.
   And a Predator drone flew over, dropping its payload, and killing the grandmother, Momina Bibi, and injuring seven children.
   Or, if not marking date of the tragedy, itself, then marking the date a year later when the Rehman family, having traveled all the way from Pakistan, testified before Congress.
  Only to be slighted to the tune of only five of the 430 representatives even bothering to show up and hear them.
   I would that we, as a people marked our own injustices. Wish our hearts cried out when things like this happened. I wish that if our leaders would not recognized or apologize, then we, as a people, would. Now, I don't see a march coming a month from now, marking what befell the Rehman family.
   But, it would be wonderful if there were one.

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