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A Mournful Weekend For the Country
I feel the emotional agony of innocent lives lost
I am not an overly emotional guy, but I feel the pain of many people this weekend.
Innocent deaths ruled the news. The loss of young children and teachers in Uvalde, Texas, hit me like a freight train causing me to stop what I was doing and stare in horror as the news unfolded.
The daily news is dominated by multiple events, where innocent people are killed. Uvalde is the latest combined with the supermarket terror in Buffalo, New York, and the subway shootings in Brooklyn. Let’s not forget the war on innocent civilian populations in Ukraine and the years of other innocent deaths due to active shooters worldwide in houses of worship, concerts, place of work, and other gatherings.
It feels like evil has risen from the earth's bowels to reign terror.
And it's not only shootings I mourn for; I received word from a family member that a cousin is down with the Covid virus, hospitalized, and on a ventilator as if it was two years ago. His survivability is in question.
This weekend is also the fifteenth anniversary of the death of a friend's son who served in Iraq. He was innocently killed by a roadside bomb while heading to the site of a downed helicopter. His mission was to deliver…
