Night of the Recently Dead
Oct. 29th, 2006 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichToday Arn and I (and two other friends) went down to the beachfront to help clean up the "De-Feet Domestic Violence" walkathon. They did it very well - 5 miles along the boardwalk, short, pretty, and easy to patrol. So there we were, waiting for the raffle to be finished so we could help tear down tables and chairs, put away decorations. Our first job was to store away tall person-sized wooden cutouts that were shaped like people. Each one had a gold plaque on it - the story and age of a victim of Domeestic violence. The youngest in this line up was a 14-year-old-boy. The oldest - a 70 year-old-grandmother. All killed by their loved ones in a fit of anger...
*sigh* They are not recently dead. But the stats are that every 3 minutes someone is beaten and abused in a domeestic situation and too many of them will be dead, tonight, for having no place they are able or willing to turn.
So my honoring tonight, which should be for someone I knew and loved, is for all the strangers out there who will not see the morning, who are not sitting at a computer with a loving spouse/housemate preparing for bed in the next room. I'm so sorry I wasn't there to protect you.
*sigh* They are not recently dead. But the stats are that every 3 minutes someone is beaten and abused in a domeestic situation and too many of them will be dead, tonight, for having no place they are able or willing to turn.
So my honoring tonight, which should be for someone I knew and loved, is for all the strangers out there who will not see the morning, who are not sitting at a computer with a loving spouse/housemate preparing for bed in the next room. I'm so sorry I wasn't there to protect you.
