this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
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5 images and poem below the fold
An Iraqi man walks through the remains of a house in the city of Ramadi November 3, 2005. The house was completely destroyed in an air strike on Wednesday in which a U.S. fighter jet dropped two 500-lb bombs on it a few hours after a U.S. AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter had crashed nearby. The al Qaeda group in Iraq said on Thursday it shot down a U.S. helicopter in Ramadi on Wednesday, killing two Marine crewmen, and the U.S. military said it was investigating reports it was shot down. The U.S. military said today it has identified the house as a command and control bunker for enemy insurgents.
REUTERS/Stringer
People search for survivors digging through the rubble of collapsed homes, in Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005. According to local residents the homes collapsed on Wednesday after a U.S. fighter jet dropped two bombs on what the U.S. military described as an ‘insurgent command center’ about 400 yards from where a US helicopter went down, near Ramadi.
(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
People pray in front the coffin of a man found dead in the rubble of collapsed homes, in Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005. According to local residents the homes collapsed on Wednesday after a U.S. fighter jet dropped two 500-pound bombs on what the U.S. military described as an ‘insurgent command center’ about 400 yards from where a U.S. helicopter went down, near Ramadi.
(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
An Iraqi boy cries as a child, who was found dead in the rubble of collapsed homes, is buried, in Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005. According to local residents the homes collapsed on Wednesday after a U.S. fighter jet dropped two bombs on what the U.S. military described as an ‘insurgent command center’ about 400 yards from where a US helicopter went down, near Ramadi.
(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
The body of a child is buried after being found dead in the rubble of collapsed homes, in Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005. According to local residents the homes collapsed on Wednesday after a U.S. fighter jet dropped two 500-pound bombs on what the U.S. military described as an ‘insurgent command center’ about 400 yards from where a U.S. helicopter went down, near Ramadi.
(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Dirge Without Music
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,–but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love, —
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave,
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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