God bless & protect these innocent lives …

It is with the deepest sadness that I write this post. This post is not about photography, although I am attaching some photographs.

Today, 16 December, 2014, the Pakistani Taliban militants attacked a school in Peshawar, killing 141 people. 132 of them were children. I grieve, along with most of the world, for the loss of these innocent, precious lives. I try to imagine the horror and terror of what they saw in their last moments and for those who lived, what trauma will live with them for the rest of their lives.

Two years and two days ago, 14 December, 2012, the young, little children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, were gunned down. Massacred. And the ones who lived will forever remember the looks on the faces of their friends murdered right beside them.

This is routine in Syria. And, other parts of the world, but I mention Syria because it has become commonplace for terrorists to brutally and in torturous ways massacre children. To make their parents watch as they are executed. Those last minutes of life … there are just no words to describe the horror of it.

Please don’t forget. Please don’t forget these children. We have to make this stop. Please keep these innocent children and their families in your heart and in your prayers.

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