Posted on 01/13/2018 9:33:58 AM PST by EdnaMode
Within days of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, 29 American volunteers and I became quickly embedded with the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army. Alongside our military mentors, our hands and souls touched the bodies of the dying and the dead. Our doctors tended the injured. Our educators moved swiftly to establish schools and normalcy for the youth, many of whom had been abruptly orphaned in the disaster that killed as many as 300,000 Haitians.
President Barack Obama deployed about 22,000 U.S. service men and women to Haiti, on one of the most extraordinary missions of support in humanitarian history. No other country in the world offered the generosity of support to the Haitian people that ours did — with our church groups and other NGOs, the money and supplies sent by average citizens. Perhaps most moving for those 30 of us was the extraordinary humanity, respect and commitment offered Haiti by our soldiers.
On this pale blue dot Earth that we call home, the Haitian people are our neighbors, to whom our support is both the policy of a great America as it is a sacred duty.
While nothing could bring back those hundreds of thousands of lives and little could console their families, from day one there was not a broken street I could look upon from the ground without thinking, This can be fixed. Or rather, I can fix this. But soon, I came to realize: Only the Haitians themselves could fix this. Our true sacred duty was to understand the support they may need in their effort.
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That article was most excellent. If we had more men like Crockett after he met Horatio Bunce, our country would have been the better for it. Thank you for posting it.
Pathos: logos and ethos weak little sister.
Trumping “racism,” puling is their hole card now.
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I’d say Trump is very compassionate as evidenced by his approach with DACA.
If it were up to me as President, on day one I would have cancelled DACA and started to round up and deport every illegal in the country.
Stop talking, actor boy penn.
JoMa
He is a very good actor. He just also happens to be a complete a******
But no compassion for Venezuelans starving to death ? And taking people from their homelands under false pretenses, is not compassion. It is greed.
Me too.
Recent photos of Penn look like they found a homeless guy and hastily put him in an ill-fitting crumpled suit.
ConservaTeen: ‘ Sean Penn is the enemy of Common Sense.’
No... Democrats who take over good American cities all across the land and turn them into sh&tholes are the enemies of compassion!..... Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Philly, San Francisco, are all dead from decades of liberal fraud......need more!
Penn lost all credibility when he consorted with our enemies; as in their leadership. I’d have more respect for a pile of camel dung than this twit.
Good point. And yet people keep voting for them. Boggles the mind.
It is a shithole
Figured as much. Two inches to being a woman I hear. Most likely been on more wieners than Ketchup.
Spoken like a true ‘tard.
Says the man who worshipped the ground that Hugo Chavez walked on.
What about the 10 billion dollars the Clintons “diverted” from Haiti, Penn?
Sean Penn could, and should, buy Haiti with his own $$ and make it great ag... oh never mind.
Sean and Danny should make an announced cargo run delivering groceries to an airstrip in Venezuela. They could experience the warm greeting of the crowd which overran a military guarded food collection center(warehouse) in Merida.
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