Shit! That's the second LJ death I've heard about this evening! One was a lady in her thirties who succumbed to a secondary staph infection after a bout of the flu. And now a soldier in Iraq...where my brother-in-law (raised in Paradise) is now. I am SOOOO not liking this war and the president who went into it without a plan to get out of it.
I'm sorry to hear about your friend. It sucketh bigtime.
but, i get very confused when people write things like "thank you for your ultimate sacrifice for our country" and ilk like that.
maximum respect to the dead, dont get me wrong...
im just not so sure- as one replyer put it there- what it is were thankful for in that respect. that another person- one of over a thousand- has died in an unjust and unnecessary war? thats somehow a sacrifice for our country?
i dont get it. how did he sacrifice himself for our country? that question is very hard for me. im not trying to sound glib or argumentative, but i always have trouble with this question...
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Date: 2005-01-13 01:23 am (UTC)I'm sorry to hear about your friend. It sucketh bigtime.
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Date: 2005-01-13 03:49 pm (UTC)but, i get very confused when people write things like "thank you for your ultimate sacrifice for our country" and ilk like that.
maximum respect to the dead, dont get me wrong...
im just not so sure- as one replyer put it there- what it is were thankful for in that respect. that another person- one of over a thousand- has died in an unjust and unnecessary war? thats somehow a sacrifice for our country?
i dont get it. how did he sacrifice himself for our country? that question is very hard for me. im not trying to sound glib or argumentative, but i always have trouble with this question...
peace to him, though. for sure.
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