My site is really apolitical. I have my own beliefs, but they are my own and separate from my business insomuch as they can be. I consider it a good policy to keep these items mutually exclusive, but this cause is more than I can bear and I will make this exception.

In my lifetime there have been three major instances of genocide; Rwanda, Kosovo and Darfur. During each of these the governments of the world have stood by and watched until they were ultimately shamed into action by the demands of the citizens. What follows is a prepared script, for an accompanying PowerPoint presentation, from the Save Darfur Coalition.
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Tags: government, crisis, humanitarian

"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares."

President Abraham Lincoln
December 23, 1862 Letter to Fanny McCullough

Some of our fellow Americans who left us five years ago:

8:46 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the North tower of The World Trade Center.
9:02 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 crashes in to the South tower of The World Trade Center.
9:43 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon.
10:05 a.m. the South tower of The World Trade Center collapses.
10:10 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 crashes in Somerset County, PA.
10:28 a.m. the North tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

(I have had requests for the original page that was posted on the anniversary and have made that available here)
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Tags: cultural, government, crisis