Saturday, April 16, 2011

Kindness in the Midst of Wartime Cruelty

It is rare to hear about glimmers of peace and kindness such as this one from an article in the Washington Post. Here's an excerpt:

“I think this boy had an innocence that allowed my grandfather to leave the war where it was when he came home,” Ruse said. His grandfather returned, he said, without the weight of bitterness and hatred that scarred so many other survivors.

A young boy in Japan helped keep an American POW alive with scraps of food and scraps of hope. Let's all pray that there are kindnesses such as this being bestowed upon people entangled in today's wars... Read the Washington Post article.

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