Last night my daughter and I were discussing an item in the news about a five-year-old Iraqi boy who was grabbed by masked men, doused with gasoline, then set on fire. He survived by is horribly scarred. The story spoke of how he went from a happy little kid to someone afraid to go outside, and said he was so scarred and ugly that he wanted to die, even at that age. The pictures bore out the horror of what had been done to him.
We both hoped that since this story was making the rounds on television and on the Website that maybe someone here in the U.S. would find the good will and the money to bring him over here and fix him. Today I got a note from her and went to find the story. Sure enough; a major burn center here in the U.S. is flying him over here and will pay all his expenses to fix his face and the other areas of his body that were so horribly burned.
The child's mother said that he's not smiled or laughed since the attack, but today he was running through the house laughing at the news. He is very excited, and what's most exciting for him, as I suppose it would be for any six year old, is that he gets to go on an airplane.
The burn center says it's going to be a long road for this child, but the prognosis is fairly good that they can make a huge difference. Sometimes things really do work out. Now if someone could only find those who did this to a child and douse them with gasoline. I would volunteer to be the one to toss the match.
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That is just one kid, one story. Just think about all the other bad and ugly things over there that we don't even hear about because they don't tell us.
Our news people only give us less than one percent of what is going on over there with the ugly stuff.
That's true, bbc. We don't hear about even a fraction of the horrors or the good stuff for that matter.
I just wanted this particular kid to have some sort of chance. Sure it's insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but there is so damned little anyone can do to make things better over there now that our dear president has succeeded in so thoroughly screwing it all up, than even something as small as this feels better to me. Silly? Sure.
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