{"id":742,"date":"2004-04-13T01:50:14","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T08:50:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-13T01:50:14","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T08:50:14","slug":"to-lose-count-is-to-lose-ones-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/13\/to-lose-count-is-to-lose-ones-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"To lose count is to lose one\u2019s humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence of Cyberia<\/a> offers this quote, by Yossi Sarid MK, Former Israeli Minister of Education, in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretzdaily.com\/hasen\/pages\/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=195763&#038;contrassID=2&#038;subContrassID=4&#038;sbSubContrassID=0&#038;listSrc=Y\" target=\"_blank\">We cannot let death have dominion<\/a><\/em>, as Quote of the Week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We are still trying to count, and to remember them as individuals, but with so many dead, it\u2019s hard to keep track. You wish you could remember them all, but you can&#8217;t. But we\u2019re making an effort, because to lose count is to lose one\u2019s humanity.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He juxtaposes this quote with a photo of the &#8220;Coffin Display&#8221; arranged by Israeli and Palestinian Bereaved Families for Peace.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/coffins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"coffins.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/coffins-thumb.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"227\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll add this quote to the mosaic of pain:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>We don\u2019t do body counts<\/em>\u201d General Tommy Franks, US Central Command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence of Cyberia offers this quote, by Yossi Sarid MK, Former Israeli Minister of Education, in We cannot let death have dominion, as Quote of the Week: We are still trying to count, and to remember them as individuals, but with so many dead, it\u2019s hard to keep track. You wish you could remember them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}