(There are several aid programs for the zoo going on, and apparantly
coalition forces were asked to make sure they didn't bomb the place.)
The North Carolina Zoological Society has set up a fund for these animals.
Concerned parties can mail donations to:
Aid to Baghdad Zoo
c/o North Carolina Zoological Society
4403 Zoo Parkway
Asheboro, NC 27205
For more information, you can visit their web site.
Updates on the situation will be available at www.AZA.org and www.nczoo.org as information is obtained.
To anyone who is also concerned. These are wonderful sites and I hope they will keep us updated as to their progress. As they are well aware - speed is of the essence here and I hope they are able to rescue most of these animals. Aid would be welcome I am sure.
Saturday, April 19, 2003
Thursday, April 17, 2003
Lion Story
Please read the attached news brief and become as enraged
as I am. What is going on in this world. We went in to Iraq to free the people there from a cruel government. We left them without a police force, and without a government. I know these things take time but ----- in the past week, unprincipled citizens of Iraq have carted off their health care from the hospitals, their past from the museums and let loose, or taken or eaten the animals from their Zoo, except for the animals they are apparantly afraid of, these, they left to starve. We take these creatures out of an environment that they can survive in, cage them and then leave them to starve.
I have e-mailed the Humane Society, some of our government officials and anyone else that I can think of. We must get food, water and help to these people and to the animals. Also, we need to help the citizens of Iraq reclaim their dignity and rebuild their structure. We need to convince them to bring back their past. But right now, I feel we need to either get food to those animals or be kind enough to get them out of there or dispose of them humanely.
Please read the attached news brief and become as enraged
as I am. What is going on in this world. We went in to Iraq to free the people there from a cruel government. We left them without a police force, and without a government. I know these things take time but ----- in the past week, unprincipled citizens of Iraq have carted off their health care from the hospitals, their past from the museums and let loose, or taken or eaten the animals from their Zoo, except for the animals they are apparantly afraid of, these, they left to starve. We take these creatures out of an environment that they can survive in, cage them and then leave them to starve.
I have e-mailed the Humane Society, some of our government officials and anyone else that I can think of. We must get food, water and help to these people and to the animals. Also, we need to help the citizens of Iraq reclaim their dignity and rebuild their structure. We need to convince them to bring back their past. But right now, I feel we need to either get food to those animals or be kind enough to get them out of there or dispose of them humanely.
THE KNOCKEEN DOLMEN
by
Mary J. Kunert
Light and shadow.
Rock and color.
Life and death.
We walk across the pasture
Picking our way around green cow splatters
Scattered amid the green grass.
Up and over a wood fence
Behind a cover of trees and bushes is
The portal tomb.
A broom bush provides a splash of yellow and green
In front of a stark white capstone perched on three uprights.
How did the ancients do this?
And for God’s sake - Why?
Around the dolmen we walk
And find heaven in a shaded graveyard
Nestled amid old shady trees.
At the edge of the ruins of an old church.
Vivid bluebells light the ground
Providing lush carpet amid the gravestones.
Two ruins side by side, one ancient - one mediaeval.
Is one truer than the other?
Winner of the Joseph Gahagan Memorial Prize at the 2002 Milwaukee Irishfest
by
Mary J. Kunert
Light and shadow.
Rock and color.
Life and death.
We walk across the pasture
Picking our way around green cow splatters
Scattered amid the green grass.
Up and over a wood fence
Behind a cover of trees and bushes is
The portal tomb.
A broom bush provides a splash of yellow and green
In front of a stark white capstone perched on three uprights.
How did the ancients do this?
And for God’s sake - Why?
Around the dolmen we walk
And find heaven in a shaded graveyard
Nestled amid old shady trees.
At the edge of the ruins of an old church.
Vivid bluebells light the ground
Providing lush carpet amid the gravestones.
Two ruins side by side, one ancient - one mediaeval.
Is one truer than the other?
Winner of the Joseph Gahagan Memorial Prize at the 2002 Milwaukee Irishfest
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