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| Massacre of the Innocents by Alexey Pismenny |
Charlotte
Daniel
Olivia
Josephine
Ana
Dylan
Madeleine
Catherine
Chase
Jesse
James
Grace
Emilie
Jack
Noah
Caroline
Jessica
Avielle
Benjamin
Allison
King Herod was a bad man. And Herod
had his henchmen.
Henchmen do the bad deeds powerful
men don’t want to actually do themselves.
Herod sent them to kill all the children in Bethlehem, where Jesus had been born.
Herod was afraid of Jesus, even
though he was just a child.
A child can be powerful, even
threatening, to some grown-ups.
So Herod had them all killed.
His henchmen didn’t use guns. There
were no guns then.
But they may have used knives,
slicing the children in pieces or stabbing them.
Their parents must have had to
watch.
I imagine some of them killed
themselves afterwards.
But probably most didn’t,
especially if they had older children.
They had to keep on living.
There is a day in December, right
between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
It’s a day called Holy Innocents
Day and some church people remember it.
But most people ignore the
day. We don't even know the children's names.
We don't even know how many were
killed.
Probably fifteen, maybe twenty,
like in Newtown.
Bethlehem was a small town. Still,
twenty is a lot of children to kill.
Herod had his henchmen. Here, in
this world, we have guns.
And you are the Holy Innocents
slaughtered by them.
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