National Day of Mourning for Afghan Dead in US Bombing

We often have a Day of Mourning for victims of a shooting on campus or in a school.

If Obama would declare a Day of Mourning for this greater number of Afghani men, women and children inadvertently killed in this latest and gravest air strike, it might show the world that Americans don't just care about American dead or the foreign dead caused by America's perceived enemies.

 Hat tip to RAWA.

"We were very nervous and afraid and my mother said, 'Come quickly, we will go somewhere and we will be safe,' " said Tillah, 12, recounting from a hospital bed how women and children fled the bombing by taking refuge in a large compound, which was then hit.

The bombs were so powerful that people were ripped to shreds. Survivors said they collected only pieces of bodies. Several villagers said that they could not distinguish all of the dead and that they never found some of their relatives.

Government officials have accepted handwritten lists compiled by the villagers of 147 dead civilians. An independent Afghan human rights group said it had accounts from interviews of 117 dead. American officials say that even 100 is an exaggeration but have yet to issue their own count

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A National Day of Mourning would indeed be appropriate.