DEATH TOLLS

Posted on September 22, 2013 by lifegrower

DEATH TOLLS

Why are we stuck on death tolls? 39 here in a terrorist attack, 101 there in a Mexico earthquake — it’s all in a day of Mother Earth. Why does it matter? To sell a news story? Yeah, probably.

“It was most lives lost in an L-1011 flying at 3,500 feet over Seecaucas,NJ in a thunderstorm since 1989.” Sounds familiar because it is.

They were looking for body counts in Vietnam a gazillion years ago, so our
Marine company commander ordered us to cut the left ear off any Vietcong killed to put on his “Ear Board,” at company HQ in Phu Bai.

It didn’t make the news until I told the NY Times about it. I guess there weren’t any records to break.

About lifegrower

Peter V. Fossel has been gardening since he was nine, and has been an organic farmer for the last 20 years. His most recent book, “Organic Farming, Everything You Need to know” was published by Voyageur Press, Minneapolis, 2007. He’s written numerous gardening articles for Organic Gardening, Horticulture, Country Journal, Out Here, and American Profile among others. He was Gardens Manager for The Hermitage, home of President Andrew Jackson in Tennessee before returning to Cape Cod to start his newest organic venture, Swan River Farm in Dennisport, MA.
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