The Edge of Things

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We hear a lot about martyrdom throughout history, but there are plenty of people who are really putting their lives on the line today--July 21, 2009.

Just to name a few:

• Workers at a partner organization we visited on the Love146 trip who said that they fear they haven't made enough of an impact because one of them hadn't been killed yet.
• Euna Lee and Laura Ling's potential experience at the North Korean labor camps because of the investigation they were doing on human trafficking (see http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/09/world/fg-north-korea-camps9)
• Aaron Cohen's life risked over and again on slavehunter missions in Cambodia, Columbia and other locations around the world.
• Somaly Mam's regular personal threats and the kidnapping and brutalization of her young daughter by traffickers.
  

As for me? I sit in my cube, watching the rain streak down the window of another gray day in Boston, and wonder how far I would really go to help save someone else.