I’m not a politician, a war correspondent, or a newscaster. I’m simply a human being who, like millions of others, has been watching events unfold in Egypt. I don’t want to be one of those people who digests monumental news in soundbites and then quickly moves on, uninterested in others’ hardship and pain unless it directly affects me. Ultimately everything has an effect on all of us who share the planet. This post is my way of recapping the events and thereby remembering and acknowledging those who died and those who were willing to die for the very things we Americans take for granted every day.
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