all the children of the world

ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD


all the children of the world are pure innocence

last night as i watched snl saturday night lives opening of their
show with the singing of silent night by a childrens choir

i cried

last night as i watched the memorial service and listened to
president obama talk and listened to him as he read out
the names of those children those innocent children who
were killed at the sandy hook elementary school

charlotte
daniel
olivia
josephine
anna
dylan
madeline
catherine
chase
jesse
james
grace
emilie
jack
noah
caroline
jessica
avielle
benjamin
allison

all were six or seven
so innocent

i cried again

as he read those names
why did this have to happen

and those adults who were killed
rachel
dawn
anne
lauren
mary
victoria

what horror it must have been for those children in the
moments before they died
what horror it must have been for those children who survived
and had to listen or see what happened and what carnage
existed afterwards
what horror for those first responders who had to see all this
none of these the kids and the adults lives will ever ever be the same
what horror for the city of newtown
the state of connecticut
the whole country
and the whole world

what horror

ive dealt with death throughout my career
since i had a large pediatric practice throughout my career
the number of my patients who died were less than most
family practioners
however most of the deaths in my practice were kids
mostly from accidents or from acute illness or cancer
but they were spread out over 30 years so that dealing with
it was easier but not always easy
but it was nothing like this

this has happened before this carnage but not
against innocent children

why did this have to happen

i dont have an answer as to why it happened

somewhere in our society we failed those children and those 6 adults
is it gun control
or
is it the mental health system
or
is it our society our american society that brews this stuff

i dont have an answer

do you

the organicgreen doctor