Long Time Passing

North Korea.  Iran.  Chechen rebels.  Others about whom we don’t know but who will make themselves them known in catastrophic proportions.

I am listening to the Peter Paul & Mary’s song, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYii6nxhvUk

Listen to it.  Don’t turn away.

Our sons and daughters will go AGAIN to Korea and anew to Iran.

The flowers will always blossom.  For weddings and for burials.  Regardless. Nature will carry on, in some fashion, nuclear holocaust or global warming notwithstanding.

But our children?  Our children will not survive.  Because of our decisions.  I cannot look at my child with an easy heart and know this.

Listen to the song and think.

When will we ever learn?