Calling for Blawg Day of Mourning for Lives Lost in Iraq
Bertolt Brecht once asked
what times are these
when a poem about trees
is almost a crime
because it contains silence
against so many outrages?
As America prepares to send 21,500 more young men and women into harm's way in Iraq, I am asking all Blawgers to observe at least one day of mourning this month over lives lost in Iraq.
In whatever way seems appropriate.
Brecht also wrote: "He who laughs has not yet heard the news." We need to mourn the lives of those who have died in Iraq, and at the same time do what we can to prevent a "surge" in new deaths, Iraqi and US. The longer we wait, the more people will die in a war that has a meaning very different from the one it has been given.