House for a house

Sir, - Addressing the school assembly after we had moved into our newly-built building of Campion School, Bhopal, our then principal, Fr. Joe Saldhana S.J., said, ``I had to cut down hundreds of trees to clear this area for the building. It pained me a lot, so I resolved to plant two trees for each tree cut down''. When I visited my school 20 years after passing out, I found those trees fully grown and flourishing.

Let the U.S. President, Mr. George W. Bush, and other world leaders resolve that after the war ends, they would build at least one house for each one they destroyed while bombing Afghanistan.

Sam Philip,

Kaviyoor, Kerala

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