His name is not important – except to those who know him – nor is his land – except to those who know it.
One day, he awakened to the sounds of machinery and gunfire. He ran out of his home to see his friends and neighbors being shot and killed by strangers in tanks. Not knowing what to do, he stooped down and grabbed some stones to hurl at the intruders. Basic instinct versus planned destruction.
Realising the futility of his defense – and perhaps overcome with rational fear - he fled.
As he ran away, one of the men in one of the machines shot him – in the back of the neck. He fell.
Friends and neighbors rushed to pick him up and they also fled from the rampaging army.
He was taken to a nearby hospital where it was confirmed that he could not walk.
The bullet that had hit him in the back of the neck, as he ran away, had pierced his spinal cord and emerged though his chest, damaging lungs and other sensitive tissue, so much that it was miraculous that he could still live – and yet he lived.
One day, he awakened to the sounds of machinery and gunfire. He ran out of his home to see his friends and neighbors being shot and killed by strangers in tanks. Not knowing what to do, he stooped down and grabbed some stones to hurl at the intruders. Basic instinct versus planned destruction.
Realising the futility of his defense – and perhaps overcome with rational fear - he fled.
As he ran away, one of the men in one of the machines shot him – in the back of the neck. He fell.
Friends and neighbors rushed to pick him up and they also fled from the rampaging army.
He was taken to a nearby hospital where it was confirmed that he could not walk.
The bullet that had hit him in the back of the neck, as he ran away, had pierced his spinal cord and emerged though his chest, damaging lungs and other sensitive tissue, so much that it was miraculous that he could still live – and yet he lived.