This Blog is for students who are taking Death and Dying at PCCC with Professor Caffie J. Risher.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Week 13: Threats of Horrendous Death
Horrendous Deaths: What is the Death Count of US Casualties in Iraq? Are the deaths horrendous or not? Please explain. Also, please blog about other horrendous deaths that are occurring in your own community.
It costs 390,000 dollars to deploy each soldier to Iraq. I believe the lives of 4,287 American soldiers, who died, is worth more. It is a tragedy to continue losing lives in this manner.
What are we "STILL' fighting for? It is time to stop sacrificing the lives and loves of our young men and women. Fifty four percent of the casualties were under age twenty five. That is a horendous statistic! It is unknown what these lost lives could have offered the world, but I consider...was this their offering?
Sensless deaths are troubling. In our own communities gang violence and crime are a blemish on our society. The most saddening part is we have power to stop it. Life is sacred and it should not be disposable.
The US death toll for casualities within Iraq are a surprising 4,746 lives that have been lost, 316 out of the total were non-military. As well as countless injuries that have gone reported. These deaths are not only horrendous but they are tragic because we are losing loyal soligers of our country for an empty cause. Lives that could have one day helped promote change for a better cause are now only bitter memories that families endure everyday they remain stationed in Iraq. They have also been countless deaths within our community, lives that are irreplacable to their loved ones that only wish safety and security for whom they care for. What kind of community can hold their heads high within society if teenagers are not only victims of tragic crimes within our streets, they are also the perpetrators as well. Statistics show that males between the ages of 17-24 are most like to commit crimes within our society, and if that doesn't alarm anyone that change isn't needed then our society is beyond the point of return.
The current death toll figures in Iraq are 4330 according to icasualties.org. It is difficult to answer this question without injecting some sort of political views. First we have to define horrendous. It is defined as "Hideous; dreadful". I do not consider these soldier's deaths either of those. These make me swell with pride and honor that there those that are willing to make the supreme sacrifice for the rest of us. As Alfred Lord Tennyson once said,"Ours is not to reason why, but to do or die". The cause or belief does not determine the type of death, it is inconsequential. The only thing that matters was the fact that they did it for a cause greater than their own. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said "A man who hasn't found something he is willing to die for is not fit to live." Unfortunately this is a predominant factor of society. This is very evident in todays murder and homicide rates. There is a total lack of respect for life. There are sons killing fathers, mothers killing their own baby children and friends killing friends. These are horrendous deaths that can be avoided through proper education and indoctrination.
• US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers whose conduct appears to be systematic and normally unpunished.
• A US helicopter gunship involved in a notorious Baghdad incident had previously killed Iraqi insurgents after they tried to surrender.
• More than 15,000 civilians died in previously unknown incidents. US and UK officials have insisted that no official record of civilian casualties exists but the logs record 66,081 non-combatant deaths out of a total of 109,000 fatalities.
It costs 390,000 dollars to deploy each soldier to Iraq. I believe the lives of 4,287 American soldiers, who died, is worth more. It is a tragedy to continue losing lives in this manner.
ReplyDeleteWhat are we "STILL' fighting for? It is time to stop sacrificing the lives and loves of our young men and women. Fifty four percent of the casualties were under age twenty five. That is a horendous statistic! It is unknown what these lost lives could have offered the world, but I consider...was this their offering?
Sensless deaths are troubling. In our own communities gang violence and crime are a blemish on our society. The most saddening part is we have power to stop it. Life is sacred and it should not be disposable.
The US death toll for casualities within Iraq are a surprising 4,746 lives that have been lost, 316 out of the total were non-military. As well as countless injuries that have gone reported. These deaths are not only horrendous but they are tragic because we are losing loyal soligers of our country for an empty cause. Lives that could have one day helped promote change for a better cause are now only bitter memories that families endure everyday they remain stationed in Iraq.
ReplyDeleteThey have also been countless deaths within our community, lives that are irreplacable to their loved ones that only wish safety and security for whom they care for. What kind of community can hold their heads high within society if teenagers are not only victims of tragic crimes within our streets, they are also the perpetrators as well. Statistics show that males between the ages of 17-24 are most like to commit crimes within our society, and if that doesn't alarm anyone that change isn't needed then our society is beyond the point of return.
The current death toll figures in Iraq are 4330 according to icasualties.org. It is difficult to answer this question without injecting some sort of political views. First we have to define horrendous. It is defined as "Hideous; dreadful". I do not consider these soldier's deaths either of those. These make me swell with pride and honor that there those that are willing to make the supreme sacrifice for the rest of us. As Alfred Lord Tennyson once said,"Ours is not to reason why, but to do or die". The cause or belief does not determine the type of death, it is inconsequential. The only thing that matters was the fact that they did it for a cause greater than their own. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said "A man who hasn't found something he is willing to die for is not fit to live." Unfortunately this is a predominant factor of society.
ReplyDeleteThis is very evident in todays murder and homicide rates. There is a total lack of respect for life. There are sons killing fathers, mothers killing their own baby children and friends killing friends. These are horrendous deaths that can be avoided through proper education and indoctrination.
• US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers whose conduct appears to be systematic and normally unpunished.
ReplyDelete• A US helicopter gunship involved in a notorious Baghdad incident had previously killed Iraqi insurgents after they tried to surrender.
• More than 15,000 civilians died in previously unknown incidents. US and UK officials have insisted that no official record of civilian casualties exists but the logs record 66,081 non-combatant deaths out of a total of 109,000 fatalities.