May 10, 2007 00:03
It's amazing what one piece of information can do to the mentality of a group of people. We all knew that we would be deploying sometime after Thanksgiving. Some held what now amounts to an attempt at a dream bearing a nocturnal emission, only to be left disappointingly dry. They held to what little hope that Democrats' self-righteous political struggle represents.
Their valiant move to withdraw from Iraq, to support the troops, their families, and the general interest of a nation... And lastly, to separate themselves from the Bush Administration to hope to win the favor of the American population towards their party, which include a woman, and an Afro-American.
It's amazing. How much has America changed in the recently past decades, or for a little more precise time measurement, presidential terms? People think that a female and a descendant of a people once enslaved have a chance to actually triumph in a country birthed in Puritan amniotic fluid. The remaining stains of over-conservatism are still pretty prevalent. I hope that one of the 2 do succeed. It will be a turning point for somethings local and a focal change in the tides of American culture.
Maybe in the next 30 years, we could get the first openly gay presidential candidate, and seat winner...
Anyways backing slowly towards my comment. We got the word, the official kind, that we will be deploying in December. In a couple of days, the main topic of discussion and joke is suicide. We joke about it, the ways to do it, and various what-if situations. All accompanied by some "unique" ideas and always by laughter.
(-someone knocked on my door and i lost my direction-)