REMEMBERING ON A SPECIAL DAY

When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today

Known as the Kohima Epitaph, it is to be found in it's original state carved in the memorial to the second division in the British cemetery at Kohima, in India, in memory of the battle that won the war in Burma.
I think it is the best epitaph for war and perfect for this day.
We shall never forget them.

DEADLY INTENTION

I've had a smart idea.
I was blowing my nose and some of the mucus went on my hand and I thought, just imagine if there was a virus that is air borne and 100% fatal and works by metabolising the oxygen in the body into C02 but there is one woman who for some reason is immune but a carrier, like typhoid Mary the Irish cook who spread the disease across New York in the eighteenth century and was locked away and died in isolation where she was forced for the safety of society.
She is absolutely brimming with the virus and whenever she breathes or blows her nose or touches anything with bare hands she spread it.
The scientists and doctors realise something is happening when she lives beyond the day and a half that people with the virus live.
"She doesn't seem to be dying, doctor."
Anyhow, they incubate her and experiment on her, and everyone she sees wears a bio suit and they have to take blood with great care and she doesn't need any treatment, she is kept in an isolated room where she is allowed books and television and is fed regularly but is not allowed outside.
There are groups of human rights people who say she isn't a guinea pig she is a human being, and scientists she has to be isolated and tested to save the human race.
I could involve politics and scientists and the Internet and all kinds of ideas.
And then one night, she escapes.
Remember, this 100% fatal virus that turns the oxygen in the blood to C02 has no effect on her and she can spread it by breathing in a room full of unprotected people.
While she is on the run, she wonders, should she kill herself, even going into shops and handling money can be fatal to those around her, but if she did she would be a biohazard, just lay there with the virus escaping and trying to find other hosts.
And I would call it;
DEADLY INTENTION
Actually, a bacteria would be worse (better?) because a bacteria can live on surfaces for hours if not days when a virus needs a host without a couple of hours or it dies.

AN OFFER

To all those who are 'pro-life' instead of 'pro-choice';*
Suppose a woman is walking home from church and a man grabs her and rapes her and then zips himself up and goes his merry way. She is traumatised and her husband gives her lots of love and support as does the rest of her family.
Suppose, when her rapist gets home he wakes up to what he has done and in his horror kills himself.
Then suppose the woman finds she has caught on. And she decides the best thing to do, her choice, is to have the foetus aborted. She feels nothing but disgust at the idea of getting rid of something that was put there against her will. She would rather die herself. Her husband and family are 100% behind her.
Suppose her husband and Mum escort her to the local clinic and as she gets out of the car and heads into the clinic you come running up to her begging her not to go through with it.
She shakes her head and gets back into the car and thinks about it for a minute and gets back out and says to you;
"OK, yes, I will exercise my choice and not get rid of the foetus if you are willing to come to a solicitor with me and provide the money and care needed to bring it to term and then after it's born take it and support it and see it's cared for till it attains it's majority. No 'go home and give us** a week to decide'. Decide now. If not, if you can't say 'yes' and put your money where your mouth is now, it's bye bye foetus."
What would you say, gentle pro-lifer?

*You know, I am pro-life. Sometimes, I astonish myself at how pro-life I am. My philosophy, which I live by, is that harming any living thing, even slugs and spiders is wrong unless my own life is in danger. But when it comes to a woman's body and what is growing therein I am pro-choice. That is choice. Not 'have an abortion or else' but, 'it's up to you and I support you no matter what'.
**I am, of course, using the word 'us' in the Lancashire way, which can mean 'me', as in; 'hey, give us a lend o' your pen'.

PREGNANCY AND DISEASE

Another thing I've discovered about fundamentalist Christians; they hate the idea of someone just having fun without any unwanted consequences.
That's why all homosexuals deserve to get AIDS and all pregnant women should be forced to carry their foetus to term.