Tuesday 25 September 2007

"Where Were You When Chile Was Down?"


Wouldn't it have been wonderful to have known what everyday people felt when there was no food, no freedom, no education, no press, no rights during the Allende’s government or what the nation was thinking when the words leftists and human rights for delincuents and extremists were first introduced into our nation's psyche or when the former President Pinochet was attacked, and how those views changed as the events afterwards unfolded? It would be a great historical resource. The media records everything, true, but those records get lost and aren't compiled like these fresh ongoing thoughts from people of all backgrounds.

How has your patriotism changed since the last September 11th when a policeman was murdered or when poor people was attacked? What were you doing when you found out? What did you feel at first? How do you feel now? What do you want to see happen? Did you do anything to help?

If you've lost somebody, were you a victim of extremits ,were involved in the troubles, viewed it happening, or were of the many hoping, praying, and crying back to the military government, glued in front of your tv set, frantically trying to call yours, tell us your story, so generations and generations after will remember that it wasn't only a war on our thoughts, our values, but of our hearts and lives and everything that makes us a real chilean.

These are the truly People’s hearts and thoughts.