Dear Mr. & Mrs. Terrorist
My 7-year old daughter asked me a question the other day that I could not answer, she said "Daddy, how can we all start out the same way and then some of us end of killing people like in the Mumbai terror attack?"
How do I answer that? I quite honestly was speechless because I couldn't answer that...I thought to myself over the past few days that maybe the only ones that could answer the question were the terrorists themselves...
We all come into the world basically the same way, the birth process can differ on a case by case basis but in the end, we all are born one way or another...
So what happens after that? Generally we are all crying or sleeping, doesn't matter if we are a caucasian baby, jewish baby, asian baby, indian baby, african-american baby, pakistani baby...I think you get the point I am trying to convey, we all start out the same no matter what our ethnicity is. So how can you, Mr. and/or Mrs. terrorist explain why the crying, sleeping, feeding, smiling baby you once were feels the need to kill the crying, sleeping, feeding, smiling baby I once was? What after your birth gave you the right to take anothers' life?
I wish there was some way that I could get the 10 gunmens' baby pictures and the over 180 victims baby pictures and put them together on one page. Maybe that way I can get an answer out of someone in the terrorist network as to how they can't see the value of precious life and how I and those of you reading this can. All you need to do is look at the baby pictures, no one in them would have wanted to be either a terrorist or a victim if given the choice, not a single one of the babies that would be in the pics could have ever guessed that they were going to grow up and kill or grow up and be killed. What has happened to valuing living? Answer that Mr. Terrorist, answer why life is so unimportant to you...
John Hench 12/01/2008
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My 7-year old daughter asked me a question the other day that I could not answer, she said "Daddy, how can we all start out the same way and then some of us end of killing people like in the Mumbai terror attack?"
How do I answer that? I quite honestly was speechless because I couldn't answer that...I thought to myself over the past few days that maybe the only ones that could answer the question were the terrorists themselves...
We all come into the world basically the same way, the birth process can differ on a case by case basis but in the end, we all are born one way or another...
So what happens after that? Generally we are all crying or sleeping, doesn't matter if we are a caucasian baby, jewish baby, asian baby, indian baby, african-american baby, pakistani baby...I think you get the point I am trying to convey, we all start out the same no matter what our ethnicity is. So how can you, Mr. and/or Mrs. terrorist explain why the crying, sleeping, feeding, smiling baby you once were feels the need to kill the crying, sleeping, feeding, smiling baby I once was? What after your birth gave you the right to take anothers' life?
I wish there was some way that I could get the 10 gunmens' baby pictures and the over 180 victims baby pictures and put them together on one page. Maybe that way I can get an answer out of someone in the terrorist network as to how they can't see the value of precious life and how I and those of you reading this can. All you need to do is look at the baby pictures, no one in them would have wanted to be either a terrorist or a victim if given the choice, not a single one of the babies that would be in the pics could have ever guessed that they were going to grow up and kill or grow up and be killed. What has happened to valuing living? Answer that Mr. Terrorist, answer why life is so unimportant to you...
John Hench 12/01/2008
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