> ...you might want to learn the whole story. > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fkkdoDOIJM>
> Powerful words from the people who have been there, instead of the >chickenhawks here who are so gung-ho. It doesn't happen often, maybe it's down to twice a year, and I don't know what triggers it, but I have these dreams about people dressed in black being in the room where I'm sleeping, which awakens me in an "aggressive/defensive posture", i.e. in my mind, in a fight for my life. Hasn't happened in a few months, fortunately, but it's a recurring thing that has gone on for years. Once it happened when my lady-friend was sleeping over. She said "you need help with that". We're still friends, remotely, to this day. The thing is that I did go for help, in the form of Carl Jung, who took me on a tour of the human psyche. I read and read, like them mythical Forrest Gump ran and ran. I did reach a point where I understood, but it didn't erase anything. Now the thing is that I never did anything out of the ordinary, and if I did it was on the side of being humane, such as saving prisoner's lives when we could have just as easily killed them. One might think behaving well would spare a person, but that's not the case. While I can easily recall the many horrible sights, evidentially what got into my dreams was living in a situation where night and after night we were surrounded by people, dressed in black, intent on getting through our wire and killing us, like they did to the other units on either side of us. For the guys and gals in Iraq, the modern day equivalent might be something like garbage on the side of the road, or walking through alleys. Whatever it is, if they don't think they are going to 'see' it again, they have a surprise coming. When I write things like this, I feel like I'm coming across like a 'sore loser, disgruntled veteran', and maybe I am, but we did what we thought at the time was the right thing to do for our country. The furthest thing from my mind when I shipped out was that my government was lying to me about the reasons we were going into that fight, and to this day I don't think they were - but to see what's going on now, to know that people are being put into that position for a pack of lies, is something I can't sit back and be quiet about. If we want this war to be over, it's going to take more then just withdrawing troops. It wouldn't be over until we come to terms with the lies, bring the perps to justice, and show the world we're capable of self-repair. We're a country founded on principles, and not a one of those principles directs us to be slaves, fodder for the guns, of the rich and politically powerful. Bill -- Ed Leafe _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
