A terrible loss

[pegkerr]

truepenny and elisem have already pointed to this elegy by Theresa Nielsen Hayden on the loss to the National Museum of Iraq. But I'll do it, too.

It needs to be said.

(Grieving . . . )

Comments

[avariel-wings.livejournal.com]

*cries*

Yes, but still...

[amandageist.livejournal.com]

t's such a judgement call. I won't say things have been run as well as they could have, but still. How many live, freed children are worth how many dead stones? How many people left untortured, for how many golden cups? Understand--I love the past, I love its study, I almost made archaeology and anthropology my life's work (stopped only by an inability to go to the school I wanted). I feel the grief and I see the loss--but the past is past; and the past should not supplant the future. A nation is a people and their graves--but it is also a people and their future.

~Amanda