Wednesday, August 31, 2005

To Put Everything into Some Sort of Perspective


Deaths from July 7, 2005 London Bombings: 52 [Wikipedia]

Deaths from March 11, 2004 Spanish Bombings: 191 [Wikipedia]

American Deaths in Afghanistan: 229 [AntiWar.com]

American Deaths in Iraq: 1,879, as of 8/30/05 [AntiWar.com]

September 11, 2001 Deaths: 2,986 [Wikipedia]

Iraqi Deaths: 23,654, as of 8/30/05 (est.) [AntiWar.com]

Asian Tsunami Deaths: 56,000+ (est) [Wikipedia]

Deaths from Hurricane Katrina: 110 and rising, as of August 30, 2005 [Washington Post]

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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind...
- John Donne,
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions,
no. 17 (Meditation) 1624

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