This disappoints me so much Kate. I've always admired and respected you, but I cannot understand how you can say we had this coming. You say you wouldn't want your brother to be drafted to go Iraq, and I'm sure that's for fear of his death. I know the pain of loss, and it brings tears to my eyes and it makes me tremble to think of the tiny children who will grow up, never getting to know their mommies and daddies, the men and women who lost the loves of their lives, the mothers and fathers who had their children die, and to know it had all been for nothing. The men and women that died that day had done nothing wrong. Their won't be a draft, because women can now fight in wars, and people are not yet ready to see their daughters drafted at 18 to fight a war, and also because their are more than enough men and women who are proud to serve our country. That's why they sign up, to fight for America. To fight for you. My cousin is serving her third time now, and my family couldn't be anymore damn proud. To say that we are are a ruthless country is appalling. Do you know how lucky we are? We vote, we decide how our government operates, we have the freedom to speak out against our government, and those are just a few of the freedoms extended to us. We don't have to be afraid that we'll be publicly executed because of sexual orientation, or adultery. Those are crimes punishable by death in so many countries, and we live here, where our evil government hands everything to us on a plate. God, now I'm really wishing I was born in China, where I would have most likely been put up for adoption because I'm female, or in a South American country, where instead of school, I could be working 16 hour days in a sweatshop, and making a dollar a week. What lucky people there are out there, and I'm stuck here, in a country where I can go to college, and be somebody. Where I can vote when I turn 18, where I can have sex with all the men I want, and cheat on my husband if I so choose, where I can declare my love and spend the rest of my life with a woman, where I am free to be part of any religion I want, where I can wear short skirts, where I can let people see my hair, where I am protected as a child, where I can have my baby aborted because I don't feel like having one, where I can be anything or anyone I want, and I have the right to change my mind. What tyrants for letting me do so. What bastards. If this country is so terrible, than why are you still living here?
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