Disappointment in Honoring the Fallen

Haiti Trip – Day 4: part 2

It has taken me nearly 24-hours to calm down enough to write this post. Yesterday, on the second anniversary of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, I traveled to the mass graves of Titanyen to pay my respects to the dead. What greeted me will stay within my soul until the day that I die.

As I approached the burial site, it appeared that I was not alone in my desire to pay my respects as there were hundreds of people, lots of press and the President of Haiti commemorating the fallen. Inexplicably, they had built five sets of grandstands, brought in a band, and parked 50-plus cars on top of the bodies they were purportedly there to honor. It took everything in my power to not get arrested.