This is similar to what I've been saying to different
staff that talk about the residents and how they don't
understand what their doing and no matter what you do
or say to them at times it doesn't make sense. I've
been saying, 'They (the residents) are confused, and
you can't try to understand them because your only
trying to understand confusion and that's - confusing,
and you'll then only get confused.'
SA
[Marsha]
> Thank you for writing. It is so hard for me to make
> sense out of
> war. If I think about it too much I get crazy. I
> don't understand
> men. One kind of tyranny traded for another kind of
> tyranny. All
> rationalized into a neat little package.
>
> Collateral damage has a mother too.
>
> Marsha
>
>
> At 10:32 AM 10/3/2007, you wrote:
> >Hi Marsha,
> >
> >Someone once told me, "a soldier is not a hero
> because of what he
> >does, he is a hero because of what he risks".
> >
> >I said this to a Marine friend of mine, and he
> looked at me really
> >seriously and said "you'd be surprised how many
> people, civilians and
> >soldiers, don't understand that".
> >
> >In a song called Red Army Blues (by The Waterboys)
> the lyrics open with...
> >
> >When I left my home and my family
> >my mother said to me
> >Son, it's not how many Germans you kill that counts
> >It's how many people you set free.
> >
> >When we look closely, many times, at the unbridled
> patriotic
> >masturbation of the modern political dialogue, we
> can see this subtle
> >yet profound misunderstanding. And as such we are
> moving back to the
> >pre-WWI idea of "war". This is, as is seen in the
> following Pirsig
> >quote, simply systemic of the overall retreat to
> Victorianism Pirsig
> >talks about later.
> >
> >"The Victorian social system and the Victorian
> morality that led into
> >World War I had portrayed war as an adventurous
> conflict between
> >noble individuals engaged in the idealistic service
> of their country:
> >a kind of extended knighthood. Victorians loved
> exquisitely painted
> >heroic battle scenes in their drawing rooms, with
> dashing cavalrymen
> >riding toward the enemy with sabers drawn, or a
> horse returning
> >riderless with the title, "Bad News." Death was
> acknowledged by an
> >occasional soldier in the arms of his comrades
> looking palely toward heaven.
> >
> >World War I wasn't like that. The Gatling gun
> removed the nobility,
> >the heroism. The Victorian painters had never shown
> a battlefield of
> >mud and shell holes and barbed wire and half a
> million rotting
> >corpses-some staring toward heaven, some staring
> into the mud, some
> >without faces to stare in any direction. That many
> had been murdered
> >in one battle alone." (LILA)
> >
> >I am convinced the modern war will not end until a
> draft is instated,
> >and all exceptions to it abolished. Too few are
> sacrificing too much
> >for too little. And we are maintaining that
> disequilibrium by the
> >deceitful rhetoric of political ideologues and
> politicians.
> >
> >
> >Arlo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >At 04:32 AM 10/3/2007, you wrote:
> >
> > >Greetings,
> > >
> > >I think Ken Burn's documentary should be followed
> by a 12-hour
> > >documentary of sobbing mothers. Rational, my
> left foot!!! What
> > >fathers might call rational, mothers may call
> psychotic. Justify it
> > >as you might, rationality is a myth.
> > >
> > >Marsha
> >
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