Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00359)

D. Porter wrote:
>
> T E A R S   O F   C H I L D R E N...AND SHAME FOR US ALL
> > >
> > >
> > >           "In a small grocery store in a poor area of
> > >           Baghdad early one morning I watched a child
> > >           of perhaps five...proudly doing a terribly
> > >           important errand: he bought one egg.  A tray
> > >           of 30 eggs exceeds a university professor's
> > >           monthly salary...  As he left, the child
> > >           dropped the egg.  He fell to the floor,
> > >           frantically trying to pick the shell, yolk
> > >           and white, with his small hands, tears
> > >           streaming down his face."

	Sam Kinnison (sp?) once commented about the photographers who take
pictures of starving children: "WHY DON'T THEY GIVE THEM A
SANDWICH?????"

	Bart Lidofsky