Let Them Live...

Today’s Best
September 24
Published at Metropost
TODAY’S BEST
BY MUFFET DOLAR VILLEGAS
LET THEM LIVE…
In Norman Vincent Peale’s book called The Incredible Century, it quoted an article written after the First World War which said “…The allies mobilized more than 42 million men, and 5 million of them were killed, including 116,516 Americans. There were 21 million wounded combatants in all...war expenditures differ widely but the best guess for the Allied effort is $30 trillion…and still , the figures do not tell the saddest story of all-the obliteration of a whole generation of young men on the Western Front.”
That war, like all wars, took the lives of many. They fought for a reason, for patriotism, for ideologies. But the scars will remain hidden inside the human heart, regardless of reason. The memory etched in those who survived were more painful than the agonizing pain suffered by those who passed on.
Joyce Kilmer, a young talented soldier who wrote the poem “Trees” was among those who were killed during that war. He was young and full of dreams.
“I think that I shall never see …A poem lovely as a tree…” Those were beautiful familiar lines that we all know.
After that, many more wars came. Big and small. Countless children were orphaned. Haunting cries came at night from those who were left behind.
How valuable is life? How many were killed in the prime of their youth? How many would have been a successful teacher, businessman, artist, or poet or simply a joy to behold?
That thirteen year old girl who was raped and killed recently, her life was snuffed off like a frail candle. For that baby who needed help to save her life, and was refused to avail of some benefits because she had down syndrome, who can measure the happiness of her mother to see her live? For the many, countless faces whose lives were terminated by those who never value it, what has become of their children, their parents whose scars would remain maybe for a lifetime?

Even for those who cannot benefit the society are we to judge that they are not worthy to live?
I admire those who have allowed a miracle to happen to save the life of baby Kate. I can see the fingerprints of God, as many were moved to help her live. Sometimes we are allowed to know someone, for a reason. I admire Olga, and the likes of her who has the courage and the heart to start a campaign to save baby Kate’s life. As always it takes someone to say YES GOD. And the windows of heaven opens.
Come on, there is a war in this city. A war that resides inside the human psyche. To do what is right or wrong. Let others live. Give them a chance. We have the same God. The God of many chances.