Summary
This is a column that is supposed to provide some perspective, but at times like this it becomes difficult to find much perspective at all. This morning as I write, awful, horrifying events, from Baghdad to Blacksburg, Va., pile up into one another like speeding cars, creating a jumble of wreckage in which few ideas are possible, much less any "perspective."
Images are much easier than ideas, of course, and we humans, like the primates we are, are captivated and ruled by them. In the midst of all the competing images on the television screen and the front page of the newspaper these days, however, there is one single image in particular that haunts me. It is the image of a smiling young lady in an athletic jersey. No, I am not thinking of one of those wonderful young women on the Rutgers University women's basketball team. The image that haunts me is that of another wonderful, talented and beautiful young woman, Amber Dawn Martinez, wearing a purple and white Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS) track jersey with "Lady Braves" emblazoned across the front. Amber Dawn, a 17-year- old junior at SFIS, is flanked by her sister and mother smiling proudly beside her. In her first year on the varsity cross-country team, Amber had just finished 51st individually, and helped the Lady Braves finish fifth at the Class AAA high school cross-country championships in November.See the full content of this document
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Friendly Fire: No Amber Alert for Amber Dawn Martinez
Amber's picture never made the front page of any newspaper, not even the front page of any ...
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