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Valerie Reeves

8 Years Ago

Wow. I sat in my car and listened to his aunt in an interview on NPR today. Heartbreaking. To have the visual to go with the story is wrenching.

 

Joy McKenzie

8 Years Ago

On the morning news they showed the police officer carrying the little boy's body and that was just awful to see...and then on the night news they also showed the few seconds of film just before the police officer picked him up to carry him....he was just laying there on the sand...all alone... and my heart just broke and I burst into tears. Then they showed the crying father/husband...he lost two sons and his wife. This whole situation is just beyond belief. People are just desperate to get out of these war torn middle east countries and into someplace safe, but no one will let them in. The father had enough money for the passage on the raft or boat or whatever it was, for the 4 of them...but not enough money for life jackets. And the waves were very high and just knocked people into the water and to their deaths. Heartbreaking.

 

Peter Krause

8 Years Ago

Yes that photo will stand out as one of those iconic and poignant photos highlighting the tragedy of war. Joining that famously poignant photo of Kim Phook fleeing the napalm bombing back in the Vietnam War and the sad 1937 photo of that crying baby amid the ruins of the bombed railway station in Shanghai as, sadly, we know war is abhorrent yet wars still plague us. Will we ever learn?

 

David Bridburg

8 Years Ago

This will not be an open season for any debate here.

There is a petition to allow 65k Syrians to enter the US legally. So far the US has only taken 1000.

At the top of my FB page is the story just discussed above with a link to sign the petition.

NO DEBATES Please. Click on see more, you will not see more of the three year old. Just the link.

https://www.facebook.com/david.bridburg

 

Dorothy Berry-Lound

8 Years Ago

There were many more photos from across Europe yesterday, absolutely heartbreaking, thousands of people outside a train station, people trying to cram on trains and throwing children through the windows - I too was in floods of tears over the pictures, the terror on the children's faces, the desperation of the parents. As well as signing petitions there are ways you can donate to provide food and clothing for these poor people. We have to do what we can to help though it seems so little in the face of such misery - but all the little bits of help add up.

 

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