Reply #1: What can we do? [View All]

[The White Tree]

When I read this Op-Ed this morning it, as these always do, wrenched my heart, and again I made a pledge to myself not to continue to sit idly by and do nothing while this happens.

Starting today I will be writing the president, senators, representatives. I will be asking my church leaders and anyone else I can think of to become aware of this and try to put pressure on our government to act on this and stop it.

I ask the same of any of you who read this. If you think this is a worthy cause please get involved in having a voice in it as well. I am not the type of person who can easily lead others and I don't want to try, but I feel a moral obligation to try to ask. According to this Op-Ed, estimates are that 300,000 people have died. Many in ways that are at least as brutal as anything that ever occurred in Iraq.

I don't know what can be done to stop it. I am not sure I know what the right thing to do is. I just feel like I have to try to do something.

If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it. Thanks.