Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 05:28 PM MST [
General]
On Sunday I had a friend call me. She lives alone in a rule mountain area near Colorado Springs. She is Pagan and is in the Army. She went to the local bar to have a couple of drinks to wind down before she started another busy week.
A local started a conversation with her. He started to talk about Iraq. Well she has been there, so she started to tell him what it was really like. He didn't want to hear it. He got up and said, " I hate you people who go to Iraq and I didn't come to a bar to talk about religion or politics. You are pissing me off."
I couldn't believe it. I was soooo very angry for her. You see soldiers don't ask to go to war, and my friend is a liberal. She didn't ask to go. She was sent and she is honor bound to go where the people and the president ask her to go. I wonder if this man knows that he is partly to blame for her having to put pieces of a fellow medic in a box to send home to his mother. I wonder if he knows he is yelling at the wrong person. I wonder if he knows that she joined the Army for his rights as well as her sense of honor, duty, dedication, and love for her country. I sit back and think of all the things he could be doing to stop the war yet he chose to yell at her. To what end. How did that help him to dishonor her hard work and the pain of sending fellow soldiers home in a box? I understand this is a rhetorical that no one beside him is responsible. I am just trying to understand. I am hurting for my friend and I am angry that it was OK for him to do this. No one stepped in and no one stopped him. How little our feelings mean to others.
A man who served in the Vietnam war didn't even interject. Have we learned so little? Is history about to repeat itself? Just to clear the air many people join for many reasons. Some to better themselves, for love of country or just because that is how they where made, to be a warrior.
I say this more for myself. I say this because I needed to get it out. I am not blaming anyone here just expressing my feeling. I hope no one here is ever judged for doing there duty.
Blessings and Love,
Cherie
Just wanted to say you're on my mind... in my heart. Yes... still :P
HeatherAbundant harvest blessings and love to you and yours... xxx ooo
08:51 PM MST