Abdul Hakeem Hussein, 7, of Fallujah, Iraq, who underwent reconstructive surgery in March at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, listens during a press conference after his final post-operative visit before heading home Monday, July 24, 2006, in Pittsburgh. Abdul lost his left eye, and his eyelid; eye socket; jaw; and cheek were injured in an April 2004 U.S. mortar attack that destroyed his home in Fallujah, Iraq. A prosthetic eye was fitted to replace the boy's damaged left eye.
That was taken from the news. I can't look at the picture without crying, but we all should have to look at it and know that this war and it's accidents are pointless. Why are we still over there? What else is left there to destroy! Is this the price innocent people have to pay to search for one person?!
I know what people are saying, "Accidents happen and it wasn't meant for him." But don't they know what area they are bombing before they attack? Didn't they notice homes around that area and that maybe there might be people inside these homes?
People will see this picture and say how sad and then a few minutes later they'll continue doing nothing as if it never happened. They think that suppressing the image will make it better or it never happened. But I can't. He will always be in my thoughts.
2 comments:
That's crazy. Poor kid. He's forever scarred now.
I bet they carve a line on their arms for another innocent bystander hurt each day.
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