I understand where this post is coming from and what the author is trying to convey, but there is a very good reason we don't keep horrors in mind for long: we wouldn't be able to function if we did. The fact is that keeping in mind bad things happening a long way away isn't useful. Most people can't really do anything about the crisis. Yes, as a nation we absolutely should, but individually, there just isn't a lot a person can do...even giving money, which can be useful for lots of problems isn't really doing much here. Most of the problem needs to be solved by nations: ending the crises that are producing the refugees and, more immediately, helping those refugees get out of bad situations and allowing them in to nations/places where they can start their lives back up again.
It's actually one of the great adaptations of humanity that, by and large, we get over very bad things, even when they happen to us. It allows us to keep functioning, and to live. The image and the reality of that dead baby is horrible, but if you have to remember and carry that with you every day, how could you possibly go on? Especially when there isn't much of anything you can do to prevent that going forward.
I suppose the press has a responsibility to keep the pressure on by keeping awareness up, but at this point, everyone knows there is a crisis. It seems to me that the writer remembering that baby is really just inviting suffering into her life. She may be in a better position than me to "do something" in that she has an actual audience and can keep writing about it, but even if she does, I'm not sure that would really help. We need decent people in power in politics (in the US and Europe)...
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