Condolences to Fort Hood Families

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It’s saddening when any innocent life is taken.

It’s maddening when innocent life is taken at the hands of someone who the victims believed to be one of their brothers. As Thomas E. Ricks, expert on foreign policy put it in his blog, “Imagine seeing your soldier survive tours of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, only to come home and be shot.”

Frankly, I can’t imagine it.

As a child of an Army War Veteran and on behalf of the whole Food For Thought staff our condolences go out to the families of the victims including the 19 children and all the men and women who lost a fellow soldier.

Finally, I’ll leave you with a portion of what Nikki Giovvani, the Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech, said during  the convocation for those slain during the Virginia Tech incident.

“We know we did not deserve it but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, but neither do the invisible children walking the night to avoid being captured by a rogue army. Neither does the baby elephant watching his community be devastated for ivory; neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy.”

We will prevail, udothedishes . . .

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