Maybe it wasn't acting?
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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I’m surprised he’s still alive after he helped get a mexican drug lord jailed. Isn’t he a rapist and a woman beater too?
Maybe it wasn't acting?
How’s Hugo these days, Penn!?
Oh wait.... /s
Donald Trump, you are no Fidel Castro when it comes to compassion.
It is possible to have too much compassion. Altruistic sacrifice of values is anti-life.
And Sean Penn supports Venezuelan style governments the world over.
He acts like an idiot but that is just his disguise, he would prefer to be a murdering disciple of Che if he could achieve his life’s dream.
Where’s Beeks?
Harass nothing, I think Mr. Compassion is known to beat up women and photographers.
Why haven’t the Haitians been able to help themselves?
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