Reporter: Mr. Harrison, with all that’s going on in the world today, why did you decide to focus on this (Bangladesh)?”
George Harrison: “Because a friend asked me to help.”
from a press conference for the Concert for Bangladesh
this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
we honor courage in all its forms
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, My Left Wing, and TexasKos.
image and poem below the fold
Carol Lucalzi, mother of Marine 1st Lt. Michael L. Licalzi, and his twin brother Gregory Jr. walk past members of the Patriot Guard Riders holding American Flags after his funeral service at Long Island National Cemetery in Pinelawn, N.Y., Saturday, May 20, 2006. Licalzi died May 11, 2006 as a result of a vehicle accident in Al Anbar province, Iraq.
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Lot’s Wife
by Anna Akhmatova
translated by Max Hayward and Stanley Kunitz
And the just man trailed God’s shining agent,
over a black mountain, in his giant track,
while a restless voice kept harrying his woman:
“It’s not too late, you can still look back
at the red towers of your native Sodom,
the square where once you sang, the spinning-shed,
at the empty windows set in the tall house
where sons and daughters blessed your marriage-bed.”
A single glance: a sudden dart of pain
stitching her eyes before she made a sound . . .
Her body flaked into transparent salt,
and her swift legs rooted to the ground.
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem
too insignificant for our concern?
Yet in my heart I never will deny her,
who suffered death because she chose to turn.
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