Jumpers

That this should happen at all is unacceptable.

That among its victims were those who sought only to help others makes it even worse.

All our endeavor is based on our belief that even in the depths of barbarism, mankind retains a fundamental minimum of humanity. Events such as this can make it very hard to maintain that belief.

But if abandon it, we must admit there is no difference between man and beast.

And this we will not admit.

We will build and we will rebuild - if only to prove to ourselves and our posterity that the common causes of progress and simple human charity do not end here.