Cambodian school siege ends, Canadian child dead

My dad use to tell me stories about when he was a young boy in the Philipines during the war. Bullets would fly and people would scatter. He'd grab his little baby brother (my Uncle Buddy) and run as fast as he could to hide. Usually they'd run and hide in ditches as he called them. I only had images in my head of how this may have looked - until I saw this picture on Yahoo today...



When I saw this image I saw my dad.

It put things into perspective. The feeling I got was of complete dispair. Fear. I can't even imagine how it would feel to be this man carrying the girl. Or the man to the right carrying the boy. Are these their parents? I can't even imagine how my dad felt running and seeking out his baby brother to dodge the bullets.

I don't even want to think about it anymore.

Here's an excerpt of the Cambodia story. Truely sad. Horiffic. Tragic.

Cambodian officials rescue children out of Siem Reap International School where gunmen held a teacher and pupils hostage in Siem Reap, northwestern Cambodia, June 16, 2005. A Canadian child and two gunmen were killed on Thursday as Cambodian troops and police stormed a school in the tourist town of Siem Reap to end a six-hour hostage drama near the Angkor Wat temples, police said. (Stringer/Cambodia/Reuters)