Letters: We can’t imagine the horrors elsewhere

While we wait impatiently for a light to change or our dinner to arrive at a restaurant, every day there are thousands and thousands of struggling families in other countries frantically packing their belongings on their backs and looking for a way to escape the sheer terror of exploding bombs or ruthless atrocities heaped upon them because of their religious beliefs.

In Syria alone, more than 4 million civilians have left their country to get a better life anywhere else. There are too many horror stories about global refugees. Boats sinking in the ocean under the weight of too many refugees. Women and children in the Sudan being slaughtered like chickens because of what tribe they belong to.

Just remember this: Every American could go on welfare tomorrow, and we still would live better than 90 percent of the world’s population.

So next time you get impatient, just be thankful of where you live, and offer up a prayer for these poor souls.

This story was originally published August 22, 2015 at 5:45 PM with the headline "Letters: We can’t imagine the horrors elsewhere."