@azureline** wrote:Did anyone see this guy on tv earlier in the week? no idea when or what channel, OH was watching and I was mesmerised.
He went back with prosthetic limbs and showed us the hospitals and the children who have no feet, no legs, no hands, from explosive devices..... just walking to school.
It gave me a new perspective on the life of civilians in Afghanistan......... and an understanding of why they would leave there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/world/asia/12photographer.html?_r=0
How can they walk to school wkithout legs or feet ? not trying to be facecious just wondering.
If the boats are slowing down that is great but where willthe people go who are waiting in Indonesia to catch a boat to Australia ? Indonesia can not support them nor has the space to house them.
@azureline** wrote:Did anyone see this guy on tv earlier in the week? no idea when or what channel, OH was watching and I was mesmerised.
He went back with prosthetic limbs and showed us the hospitals and the children who have no feet, no legs, no hands, from explosive devices..... just walking to school.
It gave me a new perspective on the life of civilians in Afghanistan......... and an understanding of why they would leave there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/world/asia/12photographer.html?_r=0
Yes, Azure, I saw it. 4 corners. Very sad, because of what war does to innocent civilians as well as the combatants.
But leaders of countries would be unfazed if they saw it, and wars will continue.
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@azureline** wrote:Did anyone see this guy on tv earlier in the week? no idea when or what channel, OH was watching and I was mesmerised.
He went back with prosthetic limbs and showed us the hospitals and the children who have no feet, no legs, no hands, from explosive devices..... just walking to school.
It gave me a new perspective on the life of civilians in Afghanistan......... and an understanding of why they would leave there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/world/asia/12photographer.html?_r=0
I saw it too az.
The stats are heartbreaking - something like 55,000 Afghans lose limbs yearly and the majority are children playing or walking to school. And no hospitals to help them excpet for volunteer ones.
The bit about the ex-Afghan military guy was tagic - whilst a western photographer can get flown to a hospital within minutes, he gets no help whatsover.
And then some have the hide to question why people would want to leave their at any cost in the hope of giving their children a better chance at life...
@mtnlane wrote:If you were 'just wondering' perhaps you should have read the link or, perish the thought, searched out the programme to see for yourself rather than ask a question like that.
I am sure Azureline can answer for herself but I found your question appallingly insensitive and in very poor taste.
The young lad Azureline was referring to lost his left leg and left arm 'walking to school' when he stepped on a land mine.
Expand your horizons and watch the programme.
No thanks, I see to much misery in real life to have to watch poor unfortunate children who have their limbs blown off because of stupid men starting stupid wars. I was not being insensitive and you don't know me, to suggest otherwise is very presumptuous of you 
