My fifth-grade son requested me for assist along with his homework the opposite night time. His class is studying Lois Lowry’s well-known novel, “Quantity the Stars,” based mostly in Denmark circa WWII. I learn this ebook after I was my son’s age. I couldn’t consider such horrible issues had really occurred. Studying his project, I used to be struck by the phrases on the finish of Lowry’s ebook: “Absolutely that present — the present of a world of human decency — is the one that every one nations starvation for nonetheless. I hope that this story of Denmark, and its individuals, will remind us all that such a world is feasible.”
Is that this what nations starvation for nonetheless, “a world of human decency”? Is that this what our nation hungers for nonetheless? I take a look at what’s occurred the previous month in our nation: hundreds of federal employees fired and the freeze of the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement. Lifesaving meals and drugs packages, a shining beacon of American hope and generosity, gone.
The ghosts of the previous are crying out to us now, in 2025, to talk up for a “world of human decency.” That world continues to be potential, however provided that we arise for it.
Heather Maher, Gig Harbor
