Just in case you ever wondered...

When I was younger it seems my friends and I would talk about pioneer times without realizing that the problems of those times still exist today in other places. Obviously as adults we know this...right? Seems like people would often say, "Yeah, during pioneer times people lost lots of kids to death...they probably just accepted it as a way of life..." I would often respond with, "You can't be serious. How could you get used to that. I disagree. I don't think they were ever ok with death." So just in case you ever wondered. Today it was called to our attention that five children in my daughter's class at school had lost their parents and been adopted. When I was discussing this with my son who has been in those shoes, his response was not, "How cool that all those kids were adopted." NO. He said, "Ohhhh, that is so terrible! In __________ each morning when I woke up I would hear about who died last night. EVERY DAY people died. DIED,DIED, DIED. It was soooo terrible....in America I do not know death."