20.Nov.2003I’m disgusted right now. Absolutely disgusted.
A good friend of mine by the name of Carrie is a Marine and she’s also been fighting cancer. Today, she was on her way home with her young daughter from one of her treatments when two people approached her and wanted to know why she was a Marine.
Why she was a murderer, war monger, and baby-killer.
Calmly, she tried to explain what she and her fellow Marines do. They wouldn’t listen.
For people supposedly “Anti-War / Violence” - what they did next was inexcusable. The man shoved her up against a wall and spit on her. His wife, girlfriend - whatever slapped her and spit on her as well.
What did Carrie do? Nothing but look at them sadly as they laughed at what they did and hurled hateful slurs at her.
Her poor little girl was forced to watch these freaks assault her Mommy in her uniform. She’s a very smart, very precocious little girl and wanted to know why someone would do this to her Mommy. Didn’t they know Mommy and the other Marines help protect people every day? Carrie didn’t know what to tell her. (Since then she’s found a song that might help.)
Another friend just returned from the Middle East himself. He said it’s a no-win situation. They go over and risk their lives for people that hate them. They come home and find the same hatred waiting for them. It still puzzles him, but he’s getting so he just shrugs it off.
What a wonderful country we live in. And I mean that sarcastically.
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2 Responses to “The American Soldier”
November 20th, 2003 at 8:29 pm
That is so horrible. I am not happy about Bush sending people to Iraq, but it doesn’t give ANYBODY any right to do that to people- no matter what the cause. It’s war that bring out the BEST and WORST in people.
Your friend has the utmost respect from one humbled anti-war college student in Arizona. Just because I don’t support the whole war idea, doesn’t mean I don’t support America and its troops.
November 22nd, 2003 at 6:07 pm
I’m one of the few that doesn’t have an opinion on the war, exactly. l can’t say I support it, can’t say I’m against it, can’t say I don’t mind it, can’t say I do mind it. Honestly, I don’t think about it much beyond the fact that there are people there and people here who are, one way or another, involved. People.
War seems to have the ill side-effect of blinding people to their own humanity. We forget that our opinions, in the long run, are only opinions. We forget that even the smallest evil is sick and wrong. What right have we to hate?
Actions such as this are what make wars possible in the first place. They do no good, only brew more harm.
I think I’m just sorrowed by it.
"Be the change you seek in the world." — Ghandi