Carefully, we put them into a small box, added some leaves, and moved them to an area outside our house, protected by bushes, but in the path where rabbits normally go. Hopefully, their motherĂ ‚¬"or another motherĂ ‚¬"would see them and help raise them. We knew it probably wouldn't happen, but we hoped. It was the best we could do.
And then we shed a few tears.
Dumb bunnies.
[Assisting on this column was Kathie Guilfoose. Rosemary Brasch is a former secretary, Red Cross national disaster family services specialist, labor union grievance officer, and labor studies instructor. Walter M. Brasch is a university professor of journalism, social issues columnist, and the author of 17 books. His current books are 'Unacceptable': The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina; and Sinking the Ship of State: The Presidency of George W. Bush, available from amazon.com, bn.com, and other stores. Sinking the Ship of State was a winner in the politics/social issues category of USA Book News awards, and a finalist in the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group awards. His weekly column was this year's winner in contests sponsored by the Pennsylvania Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists; his column received honorable mention in competition sponsored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Forthcoming in September is the critically-acclaimed third edition of Sex and the Single Beer Can: Probing the Media and American Culture. You may contact him at brasch@bloomu.edu or through his website, www.walterbrasch.com]
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