Two More Lost.

This morning, I woke up, I scanned the headlines on the front page of our local newspaper and I read, "2 Oregon Guardsmen Killed in Iraq" This brings Oregon's contribution to the American war dead in Iraq to 24.

24 lives lost. Gone forever. Dead.

I am horrified by the images that stream out from Iraq. I am horrified by the loss, the destruction and the death. Civilians and soldiers, warmongers and pacifists, all swirled together in one bloody picture of man's inhumanity to man.

Do you all see what I see?

Or do you hide your eyes under your hands and pretend?

As you drive your SUV, sipping your latte, does it even cross your mind that there are families wailing with grief over the loss of their loved ones who have fallen in this senseless and sanctioned violence we call war?

How much longer will we close our eyes to the devastation and the death that war inevitably produces?



How much longer?