Notice
whenever there is an accident or tragedy or natural catastrophe, the first
report is the body count?
How many
died or were injured?
The local
follow up reports gave the names then can report on the obituary arrangements
and interviews with the families.
What about
those we did not know? They may have been from another state or country and a
simple name won’t matter anymore than a passing gravestone.
Then what
happens?
Does anyone
report on the damage to the car or bus or airplane or house? Does anyone
interview those who must pick up the pieces? Does anyone note the statics of
people who live by removing, destroying or restoring the mangled metal? Does
anyone express the number of days in hospital or rehab those who survived must
endure? Does anyone calculate the lost jobs, education, transportation or wages
that families face?
Wars are
numbers of bodies. Holidays glorify gravestones of massive unnecessary carnage
but we continue.
Count the
dead and make the 5 o’clock news.
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