thanks so much for the update. it is so difficult to believe it's been nearly a year!
the situation with the soldiers is something i can't even begin to get my mind around. i can't think of a response because the entire thing is so utterly devestatingly horrific and shocking. and i wish i was more surprised. i wish you didn't have to deal with it, also.
Actually, I'm... well, not exactly glad, and certainly not happy I'm dealing with it, let alone satisfied with the way I'm dealing with it. But it seems, to me, something like an appropriate responsibility of mine. Hmmmm.... Let me think.....
I wish more of our citizens, not now personally connected with the war, were dealing with it. Only then, perhaps, would we have the deep understanding and compassion that, I very much believe, is always the personal responsibility, the individual duty of all citizens of a country at war.
I realize some of that may sound a bit old-fashioned. But something feels very wrong when I, as a citizen, am too-removed from my country being at war. Regardless of what I think of that war.
Does that make sense?
I'm certain that I came off too complaining in my post, and for that I apologize. And I so appreciate your comments, which enable me to become more clear.
no i do understand what you were saying. and you didn't come across as complaining. i was raised by pacifists, so i find the entire concept so bewildering and horrifying i have a knee jerk reaction to the whole deal.
however i completely agree with the idea of our responsibility to each other. as humans first of all.
i suppose what i really meant was that i wish the situation and the pain wasn't there in the first place for you to have to deal with. rather than wishing you had a chance to opt out.
I'm glad that I didn't come across as complaining.
i was raised by pacifists...I was raised by a father who helped put up the first flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, and who was the last of his platoon of 50 young men -- whom he trained with for a year -- to be killed or wounded over a three week period. It was actually over 100% casualties, because replacements generally didn't last more than a few days. Most of these Marines were teenagers; my father was an "old man" at 20
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the situation with the soldiers is something i can't even begin to get my mind around. i can't think of a response because the entire thing is so utterly devestatingly horrific and shocking. and i wish i was more surprised. i wish you didn't have to deal with it, also.
*hugs you*
best wishes to jane.
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Actually, I'm... well, not exactly glad, and certainly not happy I'm dealing with it, let alone satisfied with the way I'm dealing with it. But it seems, to me, something like an appropriate responsibility of mine. Hmmmm.... Let me think.....
I wish more of our citizens, not now personally connected with the war, were dealing with it. Only then, perhaps, would we have the deep understanding and compassion that, I very much believe, is always the personal responsibility, the individual duty of all citizens of a country at war.
I realize some of that may sound a bit old-fashioned. But something feels very wrong when I, as a citizen, am too-removed from my country being at war. Regardless of what I think of that war.
Does that make sense?
I'm certain that I came off too complaining in my post, and for that I apologize. And I so appreciate your comments, which enable me to become more clear.
*hugs* & best wishes to you & yours,
avus
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however i completely agree with the idea of our responsibility to each other. as humans first of all.
i suppose what i really meant was that i wish the situation and the pain wasn't there in the first place for you to have to deal with. rather than wishing you had a chance to opt out.
*hugs back*
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i was raised by pacifists...I was raised by a father who helped put up the first flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, and who was the last of his platoon of 50 young men -- whom he trained with for a year -- to be killed or wounded over a three week period. It was actually over 100% casualties, because replacements generally didn't last more than a few days. Most of these Marines were teenagers; my father was an "old man" at 20 ( ... )
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