Things That Matter...

Tonight I had a dream ... I was back to school. We were given a task to write an essay about anything we want. I always had a problem to come up with the ideas for my assignments or articles or news stories in real life, and used to ask Alex to brainstorm with me. But not this time... There was no Alex in this dream :) The topic came up to my mind just two hours before handing in the actual assignment. I wrote about wars! To my amazement I still could remember the idea of my essay in the morning. That's the reason why I decided to write about it now. Here it is... Civil war in Afghanistan which is taking place from 1978 brought 2,000,000 casualties; Gulf War 1990-1991 - 20, 000 to 35,000 losses; Iraq war in 2003 – about 1,300,000 casualties; ongoing Civil war in Chad; 2006 Lebanon war with its 1,300 dead; 2006-2009 war in Somalia with about 8,000 dead; invasion into Gaza 2008-2009 with its 1,400 casualties...And many, many others....... The horror of war affects young and old, it k