I hardly (and I mean, never) watch TV anymore. This past Sunday nite, I wanted to sit in front of the tube and eat my dinner. I turned on PBS and they had on a concert, not my thing (well if it was Earth Wind & Fire it may have been!). I switched to CBS, remembering that the show 60 Minutes is on around dinner time. Sure enough it was. I caught most of this interview with a GI.
Now, this entire horrendous story aside, and all you can say about what “they” did, I became more enraged than ever at this war! Mostly though on Sunday evening, I was thinking about these YOUNG people who are over there in this pressure-cooker situation, where bad shit happens all the time. How much sacrifice they make. How much pain they suffer. And I keep getting the math wrong because it doesn't add up for me! It terrifies me that I still don't know what the fuck we're doing over there, and the answers I come up with are indeed terrifying. I won't go down the lane of how poorly I think of our president right now, how ashamed I am of what our country has done on his watch (which I do believe, is our watch).
What I want to say and do, is that EVERY SINGLE ONE of these kids we send over there should be welcomed home with as much respect as we can. They're young, that's why they go. When I was 20, I would have went and did what the old guys told me to do, didn't think much about the “bigger” picture. That's why we get um to go. I'm almost 52, I need a little connection of the damn DOTS before I can get up and make killing happen. They wouldn't have me now. Good thing. So, here's this guy, and his squad, something unbelievably horrifying happened, fighting in a war that WE sent him to, doing the best he can. He breaks, and it's complete tragedy. Now, he's here. I wanted to hug him and tell him that it's OK; it's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's all of our faults, every one of us who doesn't do something, anything we can, to stop this damn war.
The idea of war is a wild animal and left unfed he is all the more dangerous. Like the old saying "You are what you eat" the same can be said for the idea of war. Feed it with servings of lies and deceit and it's hunger will remain unsatisfied slowly rotting society from the inside out.
ReplyDeleteAn idea that is fed with truth and virtue can have it's hunger satisfied and get on with other thoughts like compassion and understanding. Are there wars that are just, there will always be those who feel this way. Perhaps my grandfather and his generation fought a war that was necessary.
This war has been fed on lies and deceit. The government insults us everyday with the lies it expects us to believe. We as a society are responsible for our countries actions. Stand up and have your voice heard, vote and talk truthfully about an America for the people by the people.