Letter of the day: Putting Pakistan's flood devastation into context

August 18, 2010 at 11:48PM

Take a moment and imagine that every man, woman and child in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana were homeless and without access to clean water and food. What would you do? Where would you go? I've just described the conditions in Pakistan today. Twenty million homeless! Conditions in Pakistan have reached crisis proportions. The Pakistanis need our help now.L. HUDSON, GOLDEN VALLEY

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