Tomorrow

20 years, tomorrow- June 4th. 1989. I was 8.

20 years since students tried to take what was, in this country is considered inalienably, theirs. And a lot of them got shot for it.

20 years, since protesters around China stood in defiance for what was only being paid lip service, The People. 20 years since people had to keep quiet or disappear. 20 years. And the youngest don't even know. "Lot of people in the streets then, I hear." 20 years since hard choices, and blood won the expansion of the cage.

4 essays: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/opinion/31tiananmen.html?_r=1

Even twenty years ago it took blood sacrifices to force the hand of The Powerful. If they can't remember it there, we should do them the honor of remembering it here.