With worry and pride Anti-war generation watches its children go to war
It recently was brought to my attention by a reader this column and the war in Iraq are roughly the same age. We have just passed the four-year anniversary of the war and on Thursday the fourth anniversary of this column. My first column was in two parts titled "Your Child and War." It gave ideas to help explain to children what was going on and to make the situation less frightening.
In March of this year, the FDA ordered drug makers to include a lengthy warning on labels for controlled substances. The press has recently reported that many of these popular drugs have contributed to attempted suicide and erratic rages in children. A large percentage of children in juvenile detention facilities today are children that had been prescribed these medications. In fact, children medicated with controlled substances in the United States including Columbine carried out seven of the school shootings here. "These are valid concerns and I don't believe we can just sit back and say "Okay, whatever works for now. Our children deserve so much more than that; I'm sure of it", says [Mandy Dawson]. While their mental health and behavior may be of concern to the school system, t...
CLAREMONT - It was a show and tell day at Vista Del Valle Elementary School and James Vazquez, 7, was running through the house looking for something to bring to class. Then, instead of a toy, James picked up a quilt made in honor of his brother Spc. Justin Verdeja, a fallen hero. I have something to tell about my brother, that he was my strong superman," James told his mom Gina Gonzalez.
Horror of children and war To the editor -- How sad it was to see, on so many magazines, the faces of children whose parent died during that awful day of Sept. 11, 2001.
CLAREMONT - It was a show-and-tell day at Vista Del Valle Elementary School, and James Vazquez, 7, was running through the house looking for something to bring to class. Then, instead of a toy, James picked up a quilt made in honor of his brother Spc. Justin Verdeja, who was killed in Iraq. I have something to tell about my brother, that he was my strong superman," James told his mom, Gina Gonzalez.
Date and Time: April 11 at Noon Place: Zenger Room, National Press Club (529 14th St. NW, 13th floor)
KIWANJA, Congo - Some beat their heads against the wall until doctors inject them with tranquilizers. Others remain mute for days, their eyes darting around like frightened animals. In recent weeks, hundreds of child soldiers from eastern Congo's catastrophic war have returned home, sometimes to the same villages where they killed and pillaged. Some have been forced back out with threats of vengeance, and even ostracized by their own families.
Josephine and Edward Olejniczak's lives were woven together from their childhoods on the same East Side street, through a war, the births of seven children, a move to the country and almost 63 years of marriage. They were inseparable in life, and their children wondered how they could ever live without each other.
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