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Gary Weglarz's avatar

Reading through this list, the young ages, the numbers - just shatters my heart. It reminds me of being in Nicaragua as a human rights activist opposing the U.S. counter-insurgency war there back in 1990. Each little village had a room in a building called a "gallery of heroes and martyrs." The walls of the room were pasted with the photos of those killed in each village by the U.S. supported Contra terror attacks. I was in tears walking through those galleries, and you'd have to have the heart of a sociopath not to be. Reading through these lists and seeing the faces of the dead brings back those memories, along with that same sense of both the sadness and the madness of it all. So many needless deaths of innocents. Given that the "pandemic response" was run out of the DOD - one can even draw a line of culpability between these two atrocities. I don't remember his name, but I recall that a Nicaraguan bishop in that era made the observation that given all the U.S. military was "learning" while carrying out the horrors of those U.S. counter-insurgency operations across Latin America - that he predicted the U.S. government would one day turn their machine of death and repression against the American people and he predicted that - "someday the American people will be the most oppressed people on earth." Those words echo through time for me.

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Unjabbed Oregonlady's avatar

This is just insane....

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