Burn Guy

Several readers have asked about the burn victim that I spoke of in my first posting.  Here is the story:

This fellow is not a migrant.  He is a local homeless man, mentally ill, who lives hand to mouth.  He sleeps in the cemetery.  This man is vulnerable to attack, and was assaulted by local thugs who poured tequila and lighter fluid on him.  Some say battery acid.  The stories are always confusing and blurred at the clinica.  He was hospitalized and survived this horrific attack.  I have not seen him since that day in the clinic when the nurse was doing her best to treat his extensive burns.

There is evil in the world.  There is good in the world.  And there is a LOT of work to be done on the planet.

"I have the right to live a life free of violence"

~ by Peg Bowden on September 19, 2011.

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