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War touches us all.
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Thursday, April 21 2005 @ 01:06 AM EDT
Contributed by: melsmith
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I have visited this web page several times in the past, and I agree with comments made concerning the great potential that a community web page can have. I want to encourage the hosts of this site as well as those who happen by; keep up the good work!
I live a little way out of Viroqua, but I have visited the town in the past. Sometimes, I was passing through but on other occasions, I attended Christian concerts at the High School or I bought seed from Nelson’s Ag. I laughed each time I drove past the Sign for the ‘body shop’ next to the funeral home, and I wondered whether it was displayed purposefully with a wry sense of humor or just because.
Viroqua is a beautiful place.
With the advent of the internet, Viroqua is more than just a small town on the way to La Crosse; it is a part of the global community. As testimony, the counter at the bottom of the home page is counting the cost of the war in Iraq. What a price in dollars!
Have you thought about that? Maybe you have, but have you also considered the price in human suffering? If you have a loved one in the military I suppose you have.
As the days pass, and the number of human beings who: die, lose loved ones, are maimed, raped and scared for life continues to grow... how can we ever measure that? I grew up in the 1960’s with stories about the deaths of my uncles in WWII. I remember Kim Phuc – The Girl in the Picture- running naked and burned down the road, the Killing fields of Cambodia in the 1970’s and 80’s and then Welcome to Sarajevo in the 1990’s. Other wars have gone on as well, and I am sure the citizens of Viroqua have paid their share of this price along with the rest of humanity. Have we gotten what we have paid for?
I do not believe we have. I just began reading the book, “First they Killed My Father” by Loung Ung concerning the Cambodian war. I would like to begin a dialog with anyone else who is familiar with this writing or who would like to consider how a person from a small town might impact the world they live in.
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