War Wounds

"Love bring peace, Love bring unity, love is the answer before peace."

Great piece, it was really moving. and you are ever so inspiring, keep it up!

I saw this on TV the other day and had to pull myself together several times. The stories are so heart wrenching but the perseverance of these people is incredible. Think about how easy it is to help, only if more people were informed.

WOW. This is such an incredible piece... thank you. I've been working in news for years, and this is the first time I've actually wept watching a story. It was nice to know that I can still be affected...

This is so heart breaking. When I was growing up , like most people, I was shielded from this horrifying side of life. How can people who know this stuff is going on like rich people in government and wall street, not do anything about this?. There is so much unnecessary money being spent in this country, people who do nothing and get rich, when innocent children and men and women have to experience these horrible things in there life. How can people crap in golden and marble toilets and act like they're better then other people when something like this could happen to anyone. No one should have to suffer like this. Or even have to suffer at all. When is this going to stop? We only make enough to feed ourselves and keep a roof over our head but if we made more like a lot of people in this world, we would help everyone and everything that we possibly could. I wish money wasn't the "thing" holding everyone back from helping. How can people be so evil? How could someone be so inhumane and still sleep at night? I am so thankful for current tv and current.com for exposing what really goes on in the world because it has opened my eyes and I hope other peoples as well.

Hay golpes en la vida, tan fuertes… Yo no sé!
Golpes como del odio de Dios; como si ante ellos,
la resaca de todo lo sufrido
se empozara en el alma… Yo no sé!

Son pocos; pero son… Abren zanjas oscuras
en el rostro más fiero y en el lomo más fuerte.
Serán talvez los potros de bárbaros atilas;
o los heraldos negros que nos manda la Muerte.

Son las caídas hondas de los Cristos del alma,
de alguna fe adorable que el Destino blasfema.
Esos golpes sangrientos son las crepitaciones
de algún pan que en la puerta del horno se nos quema

Y el hombre… Pobre… pobre! Vuelve los ojos, como
cuando por sobre el hombro nos llama una palmada;
vuelve los ojos locos, y todo lo vivido
se empoza, como charco de culpa, en la mirada.

Hay golpes en la vida, tan fuertes… Yo no sé!

-cesar vallejo
-los heraldos negros

The amputees of Sierra Leone's civil war are one of the most photographed subjects in history. We've all seen the photos. And when we went to Sierra Leone, we really had no intention of dedicating a whole piece to the issue. But as we were working on Diamond Diggers and how the country was recovering five years after the end of the conflict, we knew it deserved more that just a mention. A photograph is one thing, but actually confronting the horror and the people who experienced it is another. This piece tore me apart. The stories I heard made me believe in Evil. And the people I met made me believe in Good. It was truly a roller coaster of emotions and that's what we tried to convey in this piece. I did one thing I swore I never would do in this story and that's cry on camera. But what you see there is just a glimpse of what actually happened. When I first started to tear up, I asked Darren to stop filming. I cried. Darren cried. And the amputees you see me speaking with there, actually comforted us. The woman rubbed my shoulder and said, "I know it's hard." Imagine that. Afterwards, Darren, being a filmmaker, said he wished he had kept rolling. But I'm not so sure. Believe it or not, what you actually see in this piece is after I had pulled myself together.