After a wonderful weekend with a lot of chatter and fun with my own friends,...I was saddened to read in the news about the death of two young girls,..not even ten years old,..by the hand of one of the childrens' father! How cruel! The little girls' lives were taken away because this man's daughter told him,.."I will not leave the park with you!"

The brute was not satisfied with killing the one little girl but also took the life and innocence of the other little girl, his daughter's playmate,..because SHE had the courage to come to the aid of her little friend. Picture this in your mind as I do,..there must have been a reason that child did not want to leave the park with the man, who a few second later, stabbed her to death. Was that what the child was afraid of? Why couldn't the other people in her life see what she saw at that moment and do something about it?

The death of the second child, victim of her own selflessness,..is what really strikes me the ultimate cruelity and failure of our society to protect its' weakest members: the second little girl,..intentionally gave her life for her friend. She tried to protect the man's daughter..even as he knifed to death his own flesh and blood. She..watching him,..brutalize her little friend,...came to her friend's aid against him. For that,..this little one paid with her life.

Don't adults have better things to do in this life than kill and brutalize their own children? Does innocence have any value in this life any more? Why do we not value innocence? Is it because we cannot put a price tag on it?

I wonder!!