“If only we had joined hands sooner”

A few years back, I ran across a magazine article that featured a series of pictures depicting one of the saddest stories possible. The photos were so visceral that I even though I cannot remember what magazine the article was from, to this day I can still see those images in my mind. The first picture shows a farm with a wheat field so vast that it seemed to go on from horizon to horizon.

The seco…