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Brother Martin J. Shea, M.M.: “It’s night as I write and I wonder why I write at all. But write I must if in some way I can help tell their story…give a face to the statistics. Will they be heard? Will the secret and horror of Guatemala ever be known? That’s why I write on a night like tonight. And besides there’s a treasure here and I don’t want to lose it. Somehow there must be a way to share this treasure we found in the most unlikely of all places, amid the mud of a refugee camp. Not in great strength or in great prose but in our weakness we seek to share this story. After these events I took what I had written and the pictures and packed them away for a few years. But here they are coming back from the silence. I guess the time is right as I determine to climb the mountain out of fear. So the story continues just as they continue in refugee settlements in Mexico and in villages in Guatemala. It’s time to look and listen to their story. What will come of all this I don’t know. Perhaps they will end up in some archives only to be forgotten. But at least they are now remembered and the holocaust that took place in Guatemala recorded. And so I begin the challenge of editing and rewriting in the hope that their story will be told”