this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
image and poem below the fold
Iraqis place the coffin of Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, a defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein’s mass murder trial, on a vehicle outside a morgue in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 21, 2005. A defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein’s mass murder trial who was kidnapped has been found dead, his body dumped near a Baghdad mosque, police and a top lawyers’ union official said Friday.(AP Photo/Samir Mizban)
Streets Of Fire
by Bruce Springsteen
When the night’s quiet and you don’t care anymore,
And your eyes are tired and there’s someone at your door
And you realize you wanna let go
And the weak lies and the cold walls you embrace
Eat at your insides and leave you face to face with
Streets of fire
I’m wandering, a loser down these tracks
I’m dying, but girl I can’t go back
‘Cause in the darkness I hear somebody call my name
And when you realize how they tricked you this time
And it’s all lies but I’m strung out on the wire
In these streets of fire
I live now, only with strangers
I talk to only strangers
I walk with angels that have no place
Streets of fire
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Light A Candle For
Peace and Tolerance
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
If that is true than
2000 Speaks VOLUMES!!
PS: And while you’re at it, think about 58,000 Plus Faces Of Vietnam
:o)…..thank you, again and again.
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Thanks DJ for helping me work through this image thingeeee. I copied and went by directions…thank you so very much…..
Picture candle–too computer illiterate to copy it..but thank you as always for your continuing daily diary here..a magnificent effort to remind us(not that most of need reminding)how obscene this war-any war really-truly is and becomes more so every day.
I sometimes feel like I’m in an alternate reality from what everyone on bootrib is concerned about and then venturing into the ‘real’ world and I seem to be odd woman out. The only reality people are talking about are reality shows or ‘playing’ war games..
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