Petey,
If you could learn to break out of the prim and proper restraints of polite convention, I think you'd be better able to express how YOU REALLY FEEL.
The Choir
Huh?? NO NO...if you change your writing, Peter, I'll assume you've had a 'Jack Nicholson' frontal lobotomy ala 'Cuckoo's Nest'. Then one of us will have to rip a sink out of the floor....throw it through a window and run for our lives in the woods with the sounds of a wailing saw in the background.
The sky in my world today is tangerine tinged with puce....what color is yours?
Coloratura Soprano in the Choir
Those same troops you are talking about with respect to the rapes, one of those guys said that his whole unit was depressed, either drinking or on drugs. Most of these guys left America bright eyed, bushy tailed and anxious. They are coming home in as bad of shape as some of the guys coming back from Vietnam. Last week here in Ohio, I spoke to one returning Iraq Vet and he told me his unit was part of the search patrol for Nick Berg. He said they all watched Berg's beheading on the Internet, but were told to STILL go find him. When they found him, the insurgents were kind enough to put Berg's head in a box next to his body. (Am sorry if anyone is offended here.) That's real classy, you know? Insurgents with manners. The kid that told me about this is only 24. He has to live with that image for the rest of his life. His wife, while he was away, filed for divorce, moved on with another guy, took their 2 kids and waited for him to come home. Within 1 day of being back here in Ohio, he had to sign divorce papers and come to terms with limited visitation of his kids. When he left, he had everything and came home to nothing. He was telling me, while he was over there, she got a copy of the Tom Cruise Born On The 4th of July flick and got freaked out because she felt this kid would have PTSD and be a raging lunatic, so that's why she ended the marriage, without talking to this kid first.
War is hell......
I am sick of the news channels rerunning the 9-11 thing over and over and for God sake, they've been doing daily for the last 5 years. We should keep these people and these events in our thoughts but at the same time, it's this sort of daily repetitiveness that erases other matters that need our attention as well, Katrina vicims still homeless, poverty worldwide, AIDS, cancer and a half a million other issues that get pushed to Page 8 in the papers....it's insane! Even FDR didn't carry on about Pearl Harbor this long!
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