doctoral candidate in rhetoric and scientific and technical communication
Thursday May 13, 2004
I get the “flaming liberal” moniker more often than not. What people don’t realize about me is that I was born into a 5 generation Navy family. I was a Navy brat, traveling around the country with my Dad. Both of my grandfathers were Navy. Most of my uncles were Navy.
My family has a long history in the military. So, I’m not some Ivy League kid grousing at the injustices of war. I’m talking about human lives. I have a great uncle that I never got to meet because he was killed in WWII at the bombing of Pearl Harbor. War sacrifices good men. War legitimizes bad behavior (at times).
We have to look at it and ask if that’s what we want from war. Do we want to walk away feeling pretty good about our actions or do we want to walk away feeling like we let something happen that was atrocious? We have that power to decide.
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Hmm. . . war is terrible but it’s so much a part of our history that it is almost impossible to avoid. war takes away humanity, so does occupation. it brings out the worst in people. . . but sometimes it is justified. is the maltreatment of prisoners on both sides avoidable? possibly, but you have to remember how war takes away the humanity and how it desensitizes people to what is right and what is wrong. basically: war fucks you up. and it’s a sad sad thing that this world is engulfed by it. whether it be overseas or in your back yard, war is ugly no matter where it is, and sometimes people are just too stubbourn to realize it. does that excuse their behavior? lord, no. it’s still wrong no matter what the circumstances are. wow.  i feel smart. LMAO. k i’m tired. :-D
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nice. (btw, i was a navy brat too.)