Call Them By Their Names

October 31, 2023

Writer Jessie Boylan has stuck a chord that stays irrevocably in the mind. 8306 Palestinian deaths so far.

Deaths that used to be 8306 lives. People. Men, women and many, many children who had names and families and hopes and dreams.

By quoting them as numbers, without names or faces they become statistics of war. Collateral damage, that will just crumble in the dust.

And the silence of our leaders is deafening.

I am numb.