I was in class this morning, screening a documentary about the Iraq WikiLeaks files for my journalism students when I received the news via text Our friend’s younger brother had lost his life overnight He had been fighting cancer for the past year and a half, and after having two operations to remove tumors in his jaw and neck, subsequently receiving the news that the cancer had spread to his brain in the form of several inoperable brain tumors, as well as suffering a recent stroke, he lost his battle While watching images of Iraqi widows, and processing the contents of a simple text message, I couldn’t help but wonder just how cruel the world really has the audacity to be sometimes Read more
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