Flee violence-ravaged South Sudan or stay with abandoned Orphans?
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[QUOTE]An American couple who set up an orphanage in South Sudan must choose whether to leave the violence-ravaged country or to stay with the orphans.
Kim Campbell told APTN that "missiles" flew over the group -- which included her husband, two daughters, two other American volunteers and 10 orphans -- as they attempted to leave their compound bound for a makeshift United Nations camp. She was not sure whether the gunfire was directed at them, or intended to scare them.
According to the family, American officials have told them that the decision of who is allowed to board evacuation flights sits with the United Nations. However, it is not clear whether the orphans will be allowed to leave.
The Campbells have been missionaries since 2008, but committed to the pursuit last year when they gave up their lives in Omaha, Neb., and sold all their possessions.[/QUOTE]
They probably wont be able to help those orphans.
Omaha is only an hour away from me. How sad. What a choice to make.
Stay.
If you die, you being the only parents those kids have ever known.
okay,
combine this with the SEALs getting injured, and this, and combine them, we have the real life version of Tears of the Sun.
To stay is to risk death.
To leave is cowardice.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;43388624]To stay is to risk death.
To leave is cowardice.[/QUOTE]
However, to stay would mean giving the orphans comfort in their, potentially, last hours.
Leaving would mean they had to suffer through abandonment. Again. Possibly in their last hours.
I think the saying "Think of the children" applies here.
There is no good way to handle this situation, unfortunately.
How did I know the one funny rating was Butthurter without even looking?
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