Even the Sparrow
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It seemed I'd spent my whole life in a truck. My body was more than a little sore, but the emotional pain and confusion were much worse. I kept telling myself that Alfredo had to kill those men. It was them or us, which, in my opinion, made us complicit with the act. But how, in good conscience, could we have done that? Their wives and innocent children would no longer benefit from their dirty death squad incomes. Even though Alfredo had caught them outside the Morales house, drunk and celebrating the fact they would soon add more notches to the barrels of their military issue guns, did we have the right? The Morales did not deserve to die, nor did we. And yet . . . . .
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After driving through jungles with a man known to Cate Rafferty only as Alfredo, sitting next to the man she hoped to marry, former priest Mike Green, and careening over the deepest potholes she had ever seen, she remembered asking, “Just to learn?” when invited to go on this trip. She was not interested in getting involved in some crazy international incident. But they were involved. In her frustration, she wanted to hit someone but had to settle for her ongoing battle with God, who usually ignored her rants about the futility of suffering and why He allowed it.
About the Author
Tee Spalding, an enthusiastic member of an interfaith task force on Central America in the 1980s, felt compelled to help refugees fleeing. those countries. As a passionate member of the Sanctuary Movement gaining momentum in the United States, she was asked to join a fact-finding mission to Guatemala and El Salvador. Upon landing at dawn in Guatemala, they were silently observed by a row of men in military dress. There were no greetings or instructions on where to go, and in the eerie silence, they found their way to Customs and were gruffly moved along the line. Orientation by their guides followed, with some softly spoken directions on how to act, where to go —always and only with their guides—being warned that there were “ears” everywhere. She realized now that facts would not be easy or even safe to find.