I just got a text last night from an old friend in Wisconsin and he is friends ...

[Botany]

... with a young man from Mariupol Ukraine* who hasn't heard from his fiance who lived in Mariupol for the past 10 days.
The Ukrainian woman had her visa blocked to come to America because of something or other done by the Trump Administration.

Oh dear God I hurt. And I don't even know the young man. None of this shit would be happening if the Republicans and Russia had not installed Trump into the White House in 2016.

* https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216462682

[Donkees]

1. *

You laid right under my heart (before being born)
You laid right under my heart (before being born) ...

[3Hotdogs]

2. Beautiful harmonies.

[Botany]

3. Haunting ... is that in Ukrainian?

n/t

[Donkees]

4. It's an old Ukrainian folk song which has become an anthem ...

I posted it to accompany the mass grave photo you posted.

Excerpt from an interview in 2014:

"Plyve Kacha Po Tysyni". The song is especially associated with those who lost their lives during the protests in Kiev's Independence Square or Maidan. It's a lament. It's about a young soldier, a young recruit going to fight in foreign wars and him having a dialogue with his mother, saying "My dear mother, what will happen to me if I die in a foreign land?" She tells him "Well, my dear, you will be buried by other people." When dozens of people killed by snipers in Maidan on the 18th and 20th of February were buried and mourned in the mass funeral on February the 21st, it was this song, "Plyve Kacha." It acquired a life of its own, this song, and a new life for the 21st century.

There are parts of this song and the harmonies that sound almost religious, like gregorian chanting. It is a particularly appropriate of that song that appeals to the general mood of the country because Ukraine is the country in mourning and actually the country that didn't have the time to mourn its dead. Ukrainians call those people who died, who gave their lives at Maidan, they call them the "Heavenly Hundred," because over 100 people died by snipers in a ruthless and the most bloody page of Ukrainian history since obtaining independence in 1991. This is something we couldn't have foreseen, that it would be possible in our day and age, in a contemporary European country that we all believed Ukraine to be, that 100 people can be killed by snipers, by marksmen like that in cold blood. We are still lamenting our dead, we are still singing "Plyve Kacha Po Tysyni."

[erronis]

5. Thank you for that beautiful description of that song that fits these sad times.

[XacerbatedDem]

8. Agreed. Brought tears to my eyes.

[spanone]

6. K&R

[ChazInAz]

7. No words...