Aaron Delwiche (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} delwiche) wrote,@ 2006-11-28 23:17:00 |
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The war comes home
OK. I'm angry. I'll admit it.
Despite our best efforts to hide our heads in the sand, the costs of the Iraq War are increasingly being felt in the homeland. Today, I spoke with a student who had discovered only moments earlier that one of his closest childhood friends had just died in Iraq. He mentioned that his younger brother had just joined the marines. Of course he was devastated.
It seems like half the families on my block have someone overseas.
Why have we sent so many of our friends and family into this bloody battlefield? Why have we stood by and watched as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians have perished in this conflict? And how are we going to get out of this desperate and bleak situation?
OK. I'm angry. I'll admit it.
Despite our best efforts to hide our heads in the sand, the costs of the Iraq War are increasingly being felt in the homeland. Today, I spoke with a student who had discovered only moments earlier that one of his closest childhood friends had just died in Iraq. He mentioned that his younger brother had just joined the marines. Of course he was devastated.
It seems like half the families on my block have someone overseas.
Why have we sent so many of our friends and family into this bloody battlefield? Why have we stood by and watched as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians have perished in this conflict? And how are we going to get out of this desperate and bleak situation?
