I’m home, tired, and a bit worried about this war thing. I met so many people friendly to the us of the U. S. But, many people over there wonder if the fact that the war is far from us and close to them worries us. Every time things flair up in Kashmir the poor in India and Pakistan have to pay more for food and everything because gasoline for transport is diverted for the military. A lot of stuff is diverted to the military and it means special hardships for poor people. The Iraq War is already affecting everyone in India and Pakistan. Most people over there think the whole thibg is about gasoline. Remember, on Asia everybody walks everywhere.
Terrorism threats increased in India and just every where in Asia and the poor have no place to run. Just seems like I ran into pain everywhere. I know we have victims of violence too, but here at least there is some help.
The nursing director of a hospital asked me to work with a young 15 year old Tibetan girl. She said that the girl would confide in no one and she gave me that look that nurses use to let each other know that this is a patient who has suffered from something people don’t talk about because the problem stigmatizes a woman (same as here). I spent quite a while getting the girl to trust me, then examining, her, and finally getting story about how men of the Chinese Army in Tibet had dragged her from her village and raped her. She escaped later and decided that returning to her village would endanger her family and others of her village. Soldiers had beheaded the school teacher a few weeks before. So this teen ager walked all alone across the Himalayas living on a few scraps of food and snow. Her waist was not much larger than my wrist and I’m not fat. We cried together and I made sure she had some things she needed and a little money. We talked everyday. She needed more emotional help than I had time to give, but at least she could talk to me. She is in a school and is making new friends but she is really afraid to tell any one of them even a special best girl friend I introduced her to.
I’m sorry to bend your ears (eyes) about what’s troubling me but I just had to spill it out.
I have friends who think I’m a traitor because I disagree with Mr. Bush, but there is another side to the story and as this world shrinks, those worried poor over there will affect us some day.
Thanks for listening.
Terrorism threats increased in India and just every where in Asia and the poor have no place to run. Just seems like I ran into pain everywhere. I know we have victims of violence too, but here at least there is some help.
The nursing director of a hospital asked me to work with a young 15 year old Tibetan girl. She said that the girl would confide in no one and she gave me that look that nurses use to let each other know that this is a patient who has suffered from something people don’t talk about because the problem stigmatizes a woman (same as here). I spent quite a while getting the girl to trust me, then examining, her, and finally getting story about how men of the Chinese Army in Tibet had dragged her from her village and raped her. She escaped later and decided that returning to her village would endanger her family and others of her village. Soldiers had beheaded the school teacher a few weeks before. So this teen ager walked all alone across the Himalayas living on a few scraps of food and snow. Her waist was not much larger than my wrist and I’m not fat. We cried together and I made sure she had some things she needed and a little money. We talked everyday. She needed more emotional help than I had time to give, but at least she could talk to me. She is in a school and is making new friends but she is really afraid to tell any one of them even a special best girl friend I introduced her to.
I’m sorry to bend your ears (eyes) about what’s troubling me but I just had to spill it out.
I have friends who think I’m a traitor because I disagree with Mr. Bush, but there is another side to the story and as this world shrinks, those worried poor over there will affect us some day.
Thanks for listening.
All we can do is hope for peace,prey and believe in what you think is right.
