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Maggie and KT spent the night here, in my room. This morning Maggie and I met John Reid for lunch, and planned for a pagan memorial thingy we want to hold. As of right now, we plan on holding it at 8p.m., next Tuesday at Passion Puddle over on Douglass. It'll be completely non-denominational.
After lunch the three of us went back to John's office, where he has a view of the NYC skyline. It doesn't even look like the same city. Not from here, anyway. You can still see the cloud of dust, drifting up from what used to be the Twin Towers. I nearly cried.
I cried yesterday, when the thought of a draft occurred to me. It's not so upsetting, now that I've thought about it, really. The chances of the war lasting long enough to need a draft are pretty slim... but it's still scary. Too many of my male friends are of the right age to be drafted.
And yes, I am firmly of the mind that we are going to go to war. I can't imagine this playing out any other way. Forgetting, for just a moment, the outrage of the people, and that thousands presumed dead in New York... They attacked and partially destroyed the Pentagon. That is an act of war, no matter how you look at it.
As scary as the whole World Trade Center thing is, the Pentagon is what really frightens me. Ya know? The WTC isn't part of our military or our government. There was no real reason that the air-space around them should have been guarded. However, the fact that they kicked the shit out of the fucking Pentagon, our fucking last line of defense, and nobody lifted a finger to stop them... It scares me a whole lot. A whole lot.
After lunch the three of us went back to John's office, where he has a view of the NYC skyline. It doesn't even look like the same city. Not from here, anyway. You can still see the cloud of dust, drifting up from what used to be the Twin Towers. I nearly cried.
I cried yesterday, when the thought of a draft occurred to me. It's not so upsetting, now that I've thought about it, really. The chances of the war lasting long enough to need a draft are pretty slim... but it's still scary. Too many of my male friends are of the right age to be drafted.
And yes, I am firmly of the mind that we are going to go to war. I can't imagine this playing out any other way. Forgetting, for just a moment, the outrage of the people, and that thousands presumed dead in New York... They attacked and partially destroyed the Pentagon. That is an act of war, no matter how you look at it.
As scary as the whole World Trade Center thing is, the Pentagon is what really frightens me. Ya know? The WTC isn't part of our military or our government. There was no real reason that the air-space around them should have been guarded. However, the fact that they kicked the shit out of the fucking Pentagon, our fucking last line of defense, and nobody lifted a finger to stop them... It scares me a whole lot. A whole lot.