Never Forget
I woke up at 4:40 this morning feeling very sad. I still had time to sleep before my alarm, but I got up and got ready for work. I listened to the NPR broadcast about the various memorial ceremonies of the day. When I checked my email, we had a powerpoint/video thingie from the commandant. It had images that of course showed the violence to the towers and the people directly effected 7 years ago today. I can't help thinking, however, of the military forces facing difficult joint tasks in two war zones right now trying to create stability for the first time in these nations in their history and ours. How many lives does stability cost? Why is the price for one person's freedom always come in quantities of blood, only is accounted for in moments of vast suffering.
It doesn't matter how political we are, how active in elections we become. A leader, a puppet, a poster boy for institutions of choice- all of that is irrelevant, impersonal, and generally counter productive. Why is it that in this world, in the vivacity of technology, acheivement, and communication, we still measure the worth of rights in blood? We require families to be damaged, traumas to accrue, hearts to be broken? The wars are symptoms. What is our disease?
It was the combination of the images of terrorism of planes wrecking buildings and terrorism of US military abusing enemies in unspeakable form that moved me to shakey tears today.
God Save Us.
It doesn't matter how political we are, how active in elections we become. A leader, a puppet, a poster boy for institutions of choice- all of that is irrelevant, impersonal, and generally counter productive. Why is it that in this world, in the vivacity of technology, acheivement, and communication, we still measure the worth of rights in blood? We require families to be damaged, traumas to accrue, hearts to be broken? The wars are symptoms. What is our disease?
It was the combination of the images of terrorism of planes wrecking buildings and terrorism of US military abusing enemies in unspeakable form that moved me to shakey tears today.
God Save Us.