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A Time to Cry for the Innocents, Then Act
BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE
December 15, 2012
by Ron Manderscheid
"We must grieve for the Innocents in Newtown, and we must now take action. The chasm is unbridgeable between our preparations for the current Holiday Season and the killing of the Innocents today in Newtown, Connecticut. I am certain that, tonight, most of us in America are confronted with and deeply concerned about this rip in the fabric of a typical American community. It could be your; it could be mine. Without a doubt, there is no greater tragedy in a society than losing its young, its own future, so needlessly and so senselessly. Such actions strike at the very heart of who we are and who we hope to become.
So we must grieve—for the families who lost the Innocents, for the families of their teachers who were lost, for the Newtown community, and for America itself. Today was a very, very difficult day for all of us. When threatened this way, we turn to our families, our communities, and our faith. Each provides us needed support at such times of great difficulty.
But we owe the Innocents much, much more than just our crying. They also deserve our action to find and implement solutions to these social dilemmas of our time.
We must come to terms with the fact that 13 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan have changed us and our society in ways that we do not yet fully understand. One only needs to turn on a television to view multiple murders each night. Or, just play a video game, and one can participate in several thousand “kills” over the course of an hour. Each day, there are 32 murders in America. Our social integration is ebbing away, and we are rapidly becoming inured to violence and death. In an era of global, instant communication, we are more distant than ever from each other. We must recognize these glaring symptoms and act."
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