WHERE IS THE LOVE ?

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The greatest things in life is Internal Peace, External Peace and Global Peace !

( 1963 ) Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam, burns
himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests.
Thich Quang Dug never made a sound, or moved, while he was burning

What's wrong with the world today

I think the whole world addicted to the drama

Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma

9/11 WORLD TRADE CENTRE ATTACKS

The September 11 attacks were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, nineteen Islamist terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the building, causing both buildings to collapse within two hours, destroying at least two nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington, D.C. There are no known survivors from any of the flights. Excluding the 19 hijackers, 2,974 people died in the attacks.



Another 24 are missing and presumed dead. The overwhelming majority of casualties were civilians, including nationals of over 90 different countries. In addition, the death of at least one person from lung disease was ruled by a medical examiner to be a result of exposure to dust from the World Trade Center's collapse.

The United States responded to the attacks by launching a War on Terrorism, invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, who had harbored al-Qaeda terrorists, and enacting the USA PATRIOT Act. Many other states also strengthened their anti-terrorism legislation and expanded law enforcement powers. Some American stock exchanges stayed closed for the rest of the week, and posted enormous losses upon reopening, especially in the airline and insurance industries. The economy of Lower Manhattan ground to a halt, as billions of dollars in office space was damaged or destroyed.

Overseas, we try to stop terrorism

But we still got terrorists

But if you only have love for your own race

Then you only leave space to discriminate

And to discriminate only generates hate

And when you hate then you're bound to get irate

Madness is what you demonstrate

And that's exactly how anger works and operates

THE IRAQ WAR

The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the Imposed War and Holy Defense in Iran, and Saddām's in Iraq, and the First Gulf War in the Arab world (the Persian Gulf War being the Second Gulf War), was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988. The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes and fears of Shia insurgency among Iraq's long suppressed Shia majority influenced by Iran's Islamic revolution. Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of revolutionary chaos in Iran and attacked without formal warning, they made only limited progress into Iran and within several months were repelled by the Iranians who regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982. For the next six years Iran was on the offensive. Despite several calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988. The last prisoners of war were exchanged in 2003.




The war is noted for several things. It was of great cost in lives and economic damage - a half a million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers as well as civilians are believed to have died in the war with many more injured and wounded - but brought neither reparations nor change in borders. It is also noted for its similarity to World War I. Tactics used included trench warfare, manned machine-gun posts, bayonet charges, use of barbed wire across trenches and on no-mans land, human wave attacks and Iraq's extensive use of chemical weapons (such as mustard gas) against Iranian troops and civilians as well as Iraqi Kurds.

You gotta have love just to set it straight

Take control of your mind and meditate

Let your soul gravitate to the love

THE VIETNAM WAR

Vietnamese children flee from their homes in Trang Bang June 8th, 1972. A South Vietnamese air force plane has accidentally dropped a napalm bomb on the village 26 miles outside of Saigon. This is without a doubt one of the most remembered images of the war. Twenty-five years later, the young girl running naked from her village, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, was named a UNESCO goodwill ambassador.

( 1965 ) A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam
in an attempt to run away from the American bombs

( 1966 ) U.S. troops in South Vietnam drag a dead Viet Kong soldier

( February 1, 1968 ) South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shoots
a young man, whom he suspected to be a Viet Kong soldier

People killing, people dying

Children hurt and hear them crying

Can you practice what you preach

Would you turn the other cheek

( 1962 ) A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments

( 1982 ) Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut , Lebanon

The KOREAN WAR

Japan had effectively occupied Korea since 1904. In the waning days of World War II, an agreement was reached between the United States and the Soviet Union: the Soviets would occupy South Korea only as far as the 38th parallel. The United States forces that arrived in Korea were wholly unprepared for their duties in Korea, not understanding its history and relationship with Japan. To many Koreans, independence and unification were their most important goals.

The United States, after much fumbling, supported Syngman Rhee, a Korean nationalist who had been exiled to the United States in 1907. The United States asked the United Nations to settle the issue of a divided Korea. Despite Soviet objections, a United Nations commission voted for elections in Korea. The communists in the South boycotted the election, and refused to allow it in the North. In the South, conservative parties allied with Rhee received a majority of the vote, in an election in which 80% of eligible Korean voters took part. Rhee became President of the newly-declared independent South Korea in October 1948. The Soviets installed Kim el Song as the leader of the North.

As the United States drew down its military in the post war period, the American garrison of 40,000 quickly withered to a force of 472 officers and men who made up the Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG). The Korean army, known as ROK, was given only light weapons. The North Korean Army, on the other hand, was heavily equipped with tanks and other armored vehicles. The communist victory in China, combined with the first Soviet nuclear tests in 1949, resulted in a new US policy of containment in Asia. The policy, called NSC 48/2, called for the containment to be primarily non-military, with economic and military aid given to non-communist regimes in Asia.

On January 5, 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, speaking at the National Press Club, articulated the American policy. He spoke of those countries that the US would defend with force: Japan, the Rykus islands and the Philippine Islands. Korea was left out. The withdrawal of the last American forces from Korea, as well as North Korean Kim's conviction that the US would not intervene, convinced the North Koreans to attempt to unify the country by force. The Soviets, led by Stalin, and the Chinese, led by Mao, concurred with both Kim's judgement about the United States and his plans to unify the country by force. In June, he struck.

Help us

Send some guidance from above

( 1992 ) A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger

( 2001 ) An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan

It just ain't the same, always unchanged

New days are strange, is the world insane

If love and peace is so strong

Why are there pieces of love that don't belong

NAGASAKI BOMBING

The United States detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, effectively ending World War II. The bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima (on August 6) immediately killed between 100,000 and 200,000 people and are the only known instances nuclear weapons have ever been used in war.

Nations dropping bombs

Chemical gasses filling lungs of little ones

With ongoing suffering as the youth die young

So ask yourself is the loving really gone

So I could ask myself really what is going wrong

In this world that we living in people keep on giving in

Making wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends

( 2003 ) An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child

Not respecting each other

A war is going on but the reason's undercover

The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug

If you never know truth then you never know love

( 1980 ) A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionary

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm getting older, people gets colder

Most of us only care about money making

Selfishness got us following the wrong direction

Wrong information always shown by the media

Negative images is the main criteria

Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria

Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema

Whatever happened to the values of humanity

Whatever happened to the fairness in equality

Instead in spreading love we spreading animosity

Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity

( 1996 ) Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola

Gotta keep my faith alive till LoVE is found !

Now ask yourself ...

WHERE IS THE LOVE ?

I strongly believe that there is Love in us. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Peace starts from within!

A change in perception leads to a change in attitude, which leads to a change in behavior,
which leads to a change in the world!

Life's what you make it.

Create A World With No Fear & Together We'll Cry Happy Tears

♥ "The above was edited from the lyric "Where is the love"- Black Eyed Peas ♥

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