Thursday, July 17, 2008

People we need


One day listening to the radio, I heard a symphony conductor say this: "When people look back to the 20th century, they would say what we humans did to each other was senseless, savage, and suicidal."

A thousand years from now, school children would be told that back in the 20th century, human beings actually sent airplanes over other people's country to bomb their cities, killing and maiming men, women, and children.

When people fought with each other by throwing rocks at each other, shooting bows and arrows, firing rifles, the damage they could inflict was limited. Today we have the capability of making planet earth uninhabitable. This is truly frightening. If we don't learn the way of peace, we won't survive. The world being what it is, we need a strong military. But we need peace makers even more.

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