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As I went through these photos tonight I found myself praying for each individual human pictured, Iraqis, Syrian, as well as Americans, just as I did 5 years ago when I found myself praying for each individual face pictured on The New York Times website of the victims of the September 11 nightmare.
I thank you Salon for offering me this opportunity.
I also found myself referring back to my years of studying human figure drawing and scultpure.
After about the second page I watched my own brain sort of numb out and begin to forget what I was seeing in reality.
I could not help but think that this numbing out was what was going on in the minds of the torturers and the tortured. Of course the people in these Salon pictures must suffer mental destruction and obstruction on a thousand times more exaggerated level than my armchair warriorhood could possibly imagine.
I pray that for such horrid pain of the inflictor as well as the inflicted there really are endophins that make such nightmares end in people's mind in the moment of the nightmare.
What are we doing to ourselves? Why did no real American soldier witness to these events take action to stop this degradation of humanity?
