Fact versus Fiction

"I love to read, especially mysteries and non fiction. One of my favourite fiction authors is Kathy Reichs. Her character Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, solves crimes, gleaming the truth from the bones of the victims. In real life there is a wonderful young woman, Clea Koff, who at the young age of 23, used her knowledge to help identify the victims of the genocide in Rwanda. She has since worked in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo identifying the victims of mass murder there as well.

We all react with sympathy to the victims and the survivors of atrocities such as these, carried out around the world. We also need to feel sympathy and thanks to the wonderful women and men who go to these places to uncover and find answers to these horrors. They become, in a way, victims to the crimes as well, as their lives are forever changed and haunted by the people they have given identities back to. The disappeared of the world, along with their families and society can be grateful that there are such wonderful people willing to do this horrifying work.

Read the book The Bone Woman to learn more. I have learned that no matter how entertaining it might be in fiction, in real life it is a job for those of incredible strength and courage," I whisper.

Are you listening?