Madness
They must return, a bit, to the way they were when their kids were newborns: no sleeping--certainly no restful sleep. Soldiers' mothers. Can you imagine, in a psychic exercise, connecting with every one of them right now? All that sleeplessness. My heart hurts. Yesterday I read the names of the two soldiers who were kidnapped and turned up dead in Yusufiya; 23 and 25, Tommy and Kristian. You knew they were dead before it was reported. You know what their bodies must have looked like in the end. You know what kind of deaths those must have been. I'm sick about it.
And my mother says, "They're mad over there--those religious factions. Madmen." Of course, we invaded their country. Whatever side you take, somebody invades your country and you're going to fight as dirty as you need to. Maybe not you--maybe not me. But somebody's going to fight back, and fight dirty. Nobody's surprised--not least of all soldiers. But 23. My God. Who knows anything at 23?
This isn't the moment to say that we shouldn't have put them in harm's way--that THIS wasn't the time or the place. But you've got to wonder how it would've played out had the rich white guys been deploying troops that included their own children.
If it was my boy being called up, I'd shoot him in the leg before I'd have watched him go to Iraq.
posted by I n g e r @ Tuesday, June 20, 2006
7 Comments:
I've said before I would go back in in lieu of one of my sons or grandsons, if only they would take me!
Thankfully the sons are almost beyond the age they could be; now I have to worry about the next generations paying for this!
alan
my baby boy is 24.
he would never go. not ever.
i raised him right, and he would sooner face jail than go kill people.
my heart hurts too, inger.
such a sickening waste, all of it.
my heart went out to those boys' parents as soon as i heard their bodies had been recovered--actually, as sson as i'd heard the 2 were missing.
the fact that they will be positively identified by DNA tells us a little bit about the condition the bodies must have been found in.
and the autopsies, pending....it hurts, it really sucks, to think of their last hours in this life.
I heard about this as I was driving home and all the way was reminded of my own two children who are the same ages. The very thought of how I would feel had they been my children almost stopped my heart.
In order for this madness to stop, we have to think of all of them as our children! And I am not just speaking of our American soldiers. The mothers in Iraq feel the same heartache as ours. Their children's blood runs out of their bodies just like our children. They swallow the same bitter tears. They will forever wear the same scars of sorrow, just like us. It is a mad world. Had they attacked us would we be insurgents or patriots for defending our nation?
Man learns nothing from history; and the most obscene thing of it all, is that they pray with the same hands that pull the trigger.
My sincere condolences to the families of all young men who have perished! My sincere condolences to all of us who are witnessing this madness.
when my son was in kuwait.. he was frightened every day.
there is so much they do not tell us..
he was there when it was not wartime.
imagine now..
I can't imagine.. I do not want to .
We tortured some of their people.. of course they chose to come back at us the same way.. I have feared it...
We should not be there... and you are right.. if only the kids f the rich.. the kids of the politicians were the ones to fight.. there would be no war..
Those poor boys.. and those poor families.. I dare not think too hard.
When we we learn, that we are all related????
It is difficult to imagine what is going on with all the mothers in this country, Iraq, and all those places where there is war. I saw some of the cousins of the soldier from Houston on Larry King last night. It was hard hearing he married one month ago.
We are so worried about what is going on over seas, we fail to work on the problems in our own country.
Lord help us all.....
Mary
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