Just like many of the residents of many houses in many of the
neighborhoods within Elizabethtown, I have a circuitbox tacked to the
utility pole outside of my house, with the most wonderful of human
technology stretching from that circuit to my living room.
Like most, I have cable.
Cable has allowed me to see across the spectrum of programming,
from the most dazzling creative efforts- to the driest, most
informative efforts, as well.
In fact, I was channel-surfing the other day (rather than internet
surfing, for once) . I began with channel 311, 309, 308...5,4,3...2.
Channel 2, Hardin County Educational and Community Television,
featured a young immigrant, a songstress, from Bosnia. She was
being interviewed by several forums from several high schools,
simultaneously. The opportunity to listen to her responses was
certainly a fortuitous event for any Kentuckian who still might have
doubt about the future.
This young woman, accomplished in opera among other styles of
performance, related stories of a lovely youth spent in a lovely,
serene countryside. She related stories of a sanctity stolen by
political corruption and gunpowder.
When a young student asked about some of the differences between
Bosnia and America, she responded,"Presidents can be
replaced...dictators cannot."
Perhaps some of you may have seen this interview on HCECTV, or
perhaps you personally know emigrants from war-torn areas of the
world. Perhaps you are a veteran-you can appreciate all of these
responses from the songstress so oppressed by the terrible reality in
her homeland that she decided to flee.
Back to the internet: I decided to visit the HCECTV website, on
which I found a link to a gallery of pictures taken on a visit to New
York City. In despite of the exhilirating photos included in the
gallery, the horror of the barren skyline still haunts me...sickens
my thought. I can't imagine the thoughts of the songstress, when she
thinks of her childhood dreams, and the nightmare that followed.
Can you?