Responsible Emailing

The following is my reply to a forwarded email regarding our responsibilities when forwarding emails, if you're able I would appreciate you reading this.

Hi All,

You may or may not know me, and I apologize upfront if I am a tad blatant with this. However I think it is in due time we promote the necessity to be discerning with reading and the forwarding of internet "news". Having read the interesting article below, all of us would probably have questioned the truth behind it. And that is good, that is what probably kept us alive as a species through the centuries. But unlike us, our younger generations may not be so enlightened to the fact that we need to take pinch of salt with everything we read on the internet. What are we then inculcating to our younger generations with emails like that, if somehow one of our forwarded mails reach to their mailing list? Are we not then breeding the next generation of extremist? Where does that lead may I ask? I ask this of everyone reading this;- Let us not perpetrate anymore irresponsible or uncouth news that we do not know to be the truth. It is just a click to forward out an email, but an idea once planted will not be that easy to root out.
I would like to end it with this.

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.”

Abraham Lincoln

We cannot have conflict without ourselves being first the aggressors. That I believe is not what you want to imbue to yourself . Or our future.

Here is to why this article was worded. Please take a moment to read the hoax behind the email.
False Story Claims 450 Gaza Grooms Wed Girls Under Ten in Mass Muslim Marriage

Btw

Herbert J. Smith, B.S., D.V.M.

COL US ARMY (retired) died May 3, 2010

I would appreciate if any of you with any further truth of the forwarded mail to rebuke my internet knowledge on this being a hoax.

Best regards,
Andy Peh

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