"Would you lay your life down for your country?" I asked that question last night to some dear friends. We all answered yes. Emphatically. Today a man I knew did just that. This morning, in Mogadishu as Mohamud Abdulle performed his morning prayers, a group of people came into the room and murdered him. We called him "Inda Casse", Somali for "light eyes" as he had blue eyes, rather unusual for Somali people. He returned to Somalia in 2012 to help rebuild the wartorn nation. He told me he was going to open a school there and do all he could to erase the more than two decades of horror in which children have been taught to hate. He was a father, a teacher, a patriot and a dreamer. The peaceful rebuilding of Somalia is a dream. A beautiful, impossible dream. Many people have died and many more will die. Please never take for granted the air you breathe. There is no blood in it. I dedicate this to him and to every soul who has been killed for loving their people and their home.   5

maksuud 21 Feb 2014

Watched Bono commencement speech. This song is what he is all about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erLem1Zijmo

yesh 30 May 2012