a letter from haiti…

i woke up to this at 7am today.
it’s from my baby, who has been in haiti since saturday [excerpt from the e-mail]
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This is crazy here…
I’ve never seen anything like it. Piles and piles of bodies all over the place.
Soooo many kids without parents. There’s absolutely nothing here. Just rocks and dead bodies.
Sooo many people injured. The whole place stinks of dead bodies.
I’ve only slept two hours so far like the rest of the people who came to aid.
What disturbs me the most is that adult haitian men are literally taking clothes and food from women and kids for themselves.
I was handing out meals and treating them at the same time to injured and uninjured people.
There was this haitian men in their 40’s, I gave him his meal, he ate it really fast and asked for more. I said only one meal for one person.
Then he saw this 4yo injured girl eating a meal, he took a rock, hit the girl on the head and stole her meal!!!
WTF?!?!?! She died instantly. I was horrified to see that. And this is just one case. These people aren’t helping eachother at all.
They are killing eachother so they can steal food and clothes, even tho they already got some.

They said, they don’t like americans and that americans owe them A LOT so we HAVE to be here and help them. They’re not thankful at all. I hate it.
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*sigh* i have no words at all really…. but ‘horror’ and ‘apocalypse’ do come to mind. happy birthday dr. king. we need your wisdom and hope today. we love and miss you. and THANK YOU for giving your LIFE to a cause at a time when the rest of your people were too scared to stand up.