name: Douglas Finley Copp
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The most horrific thing in Gaza
12 January, 2009
PS. to my If You can Gaza Posting
On Sept 20, 1985 I crawled inside of my first collapsed school. Three young
girls had escaped because they were in the aisles. The children who were hiding
under their desks were squashed, The horror was intensified when I heard
something and saw a shadow, in the dark. I shined my light on a huge sewer rat;
as it lifted it's face, covered in human blood, from the body of a child. It
looked me straight in the eyes with defiance..like I had no business being, in
his world, where he was king. He took off running, like a bat out of Hell, as a
fireball of anger roared out of me.
Collapsed buildings are full of sewer rats who feast upon the corpses. Can
you imagine? The most horrific thing the trapped children experience is being in
the dark and listening, to the rats, eating the bodies of their friends. If I
were to live, to be, the oldest man on earth I will never forget. I cannot pray
enough for those children.
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