It’s just not possible to comprehend the hate being injected into those crushed but still surviving in Gaza or struggling for freedom in Ukraine, if you have not suffered as they do.
Gaza and Ukraine are the best modern-day examples of human vengeance and greed before us.
I, for one, have never experienced such horror, which leaves me without any tools or experience to guide my empathy.
The best I can do was during my 14th birthday, a year when some communist named Khrushchev said he would bury us and started shipping nuclear missiles off our shores to do just that.
I was scared, particularly my Senator, a guy named Barry Goldwater said if you lived in Tucson, (my town) and they fire you might as well sit on your roof and watch the show. Tucson was surrounded by a dozen or so Titan nuclear missiles of our own.
That was as close as I got to worry about bombs landing in my backyard. But they never came and I went right back to my pleasant life in Lala Land.
What would you do, if the lives you loved, your town and home were just splattered about you?
For me, like most of you, I would instantly learn hate and be engorged with a desire for blood boiling, vicious, vengeance.
Then there are those that don’t react as me, won’t kill, can’t kill, yet run into the horror of it all to save lives, offer comfort, sanity and hope. Where are the monuments to them?
Richard Kimball
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