Angels Die Young (Anita Tyadors, 21)

These are hard times we are living in:

It feels like every time I turn on the tv or read a newspaper, there is more bad news. My brothers murdered, my sisters brutalized and raped, my children's innocence lost, and my parents a witness to it all. A witness to pure evil, hate, and destruction. The decimation of a nation, a people, a history, and a future...

And people have the audacity to criticize me for not having hope, not having patience, and not visualizing past this time in the history of Assyria. How can I bypass my lifetime to live in that of future generations? All I can say to these people is, you go read the story of the brutal murder of my sister Anita Tyadors in Nineveh, Assyria, and ask yourself one question; "Was she just another causality”? You think about that… She had a heart and a soul just like you, hopes and dreams just like you, and family she loved just like you… She will never be able to wrap her arms around anyone ever again, at least not here....

You keep thinking about you, while I dedicated this moment to Anita Tyadors…

As long as we have one ounce of breath in our lungs, I promise you we will make you proud of us. Your dreams will be lived out through us... And trust me when I tell you your death was not in vain, because we are stronger now with you in heaven looking down upon us. And we will keep you alive not with our words, but with our actions and in our hearts... eternally. They may be able to take you away from this earth, but all that means is that they gave you your wings. Something, we all hope we will recieve on day.. Fly high and fly free!

All I ask is for you to watch over us, be our sun when we see nothing but clouds, be our companion when we are alone, and be our light when all else is dark...

"For every thing I touch you touch"
"For every breath I breathe you breathe"
"Every step I take you take"
"Every poem I write you write"
"Every soul I touch you touch"

We all have to make it to the heaven one day; you just made it there a little quicker.

See you at the crossroads...