I came across a story on the internet that shows photos of Israeli girls writing messages on shells that will be shot into Lebanon. I'm a Vietnam War Veteran, and while serving on the USS Midway I saw artwork on bombs in the hanger bay of the ship that were eventually dropped on the Vietnamese. Some of the messages on the bombs I saw in Vietnam were about Jane Fonda. Others had racial slurs on them. I enjoy photography but I never took any photos of them because I was disgusted by what I saw and didn't want any reminders of those times.
In my view, people should say a prayer when the bombs are loaded and hope that they will never be used. These weapons are instruments of death and destruction, and for me, this kind of behavior is very inappropriate. What kind of society permits children to participate in this cultural aberration?
Here is a
link to the story. The photos are by SEBASTIAN SCHEINER an Associated Press photographger.
One girl in a black-and-white image at that link appears to be only 10 or 12 years old. I can't read the writing on the shells. If someone else can translate the writing, please share it with us.
I will end with a quote from Proverbs:
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6