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You will please see the companion photograph also. I took this image

enroute to work a few weeks ago. A young boys was shot and killed

not very far from where I reside. This is where his family lives.

None ogf this makes any sense. We as a nation do so much abroad, but

not enought at home to stem the tide of poverty, ignorace and

violence. Where is Homeland Security? Are we indeed securing the

homeland? This is not just the responsibility of the current

administration in Washington. It is the responsibility of all of us

to at least be good parents, good law enforcements officers at the

local level, good public servants at the local level, good teachers

and educators and ministers and social workers and good citizens,

all, at the local level. THE only thing necessary for evil to

flourish, according to Sir Edmund Burke, is for ?good men to do

nothing.? This principle still holds. And I ask myself, what have I

done or failed to do. What about yourself?

 

Your thoughts please.

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So sad..........I, myself, have seen many of these memorials....it is heartbreaking and does make one wonder what in the world is going on in this great land of ours?? Is there anybody in charge or what? Well done!

Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin said "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." I say, we have become too complacent listening to statistics.

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."

Martin Luther King, Jr.