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[Subject] Khin Nyunt
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Subject: Khin Nyunt
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Khin Nyunt is visiting a school. In one class, he
asks the students if anyone can give him an example
of a "TRAGEDY".
One little boy stands up and offers that "If my
best friend who lives next door was playing in the
street when a car came along and killed him,that
would be a TRAGEDY."
"No," Nyunt says, "That would be an ACCIDENT."
A girl raises her hand. "If a schoolbus carrying
fifty school children drove off a cliff, killing
everyone involved... that would be a TRAGEDY."
"I'm afraid not," explains Nyunt. "That is what we
would call a GREAT LOSS to the Nation ."
The room is silent; none of the other children
volunteer.
"WHAT?" asks Nyunt, "Is there no one here who can
give me an example of a TRAGEDY?"
Finally, Phe Aung in the back raises his hand. In a
timid voice, he speaks: "If an airplane carrying
you were blown up by a bomb, *that* would be a
TRAGEDY."
"Wonderful!" Nyunt beams. "Marvelous! And can you
tell me WHY that would be a TRAGEDY?"
"Well" says the boy, "because it wouldn't be an
ACCIDENTt, and it certainly would be NO GREAT LOSS
to the Nation.
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