Martyrs Day

This past week has been a very difficult one. I had serious but brief health problem that caused my hospitalization for 24 hours.

During those difficult hours, i was under the caring eyes and hands of my colleagues, who refused to leave me in such difficult conditions. I would like to express my deepest gratitude for all of their care and concern, without which i am not sure i would have ever made it (back).

After that, and coming to 2 days ago, as i called my family for a news update, i got the terrible news that my cousin had passed away. He was a 33 years old doctor, and a father of a 3 years old boy. He was apparently stopped by a fake traffic police barrier a day earlier, and was found killed in his car the next morning, which was 13 Jun. 2007.

About half an hour after i received those terrbile news, i learned through the internet that a friend of mine who was a jounralist in the unstable province of Diyala had also passed away, due to a roadside bomb which went off as he happened to be passing. He was a 32 years old, newly wed.

Why all of our stories are the same?