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rosanegra -> RE: War is fucking stupid! (11/12/2008 5:11:23 AM)
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Just because I refuse to spit on the name of anyone willing to defend me does not mean I am conforming or supporting a war I disagree with. In fact, if that is the goal of politicians making aggressive policies.. it backfired with me. I feel more strongly AGAINST the war BECAUSE I support the soldiers. Being pro-soldier has absolutely nothing to do with your feelings about the war, which is obviously something that isn't sinking in to your head.
I interact with soldiers on a daily basis. I've taken care of their children. I hang out with them, their wives, their families. I live with one, when our situation allows us to actually be together.
Yet 2 1/2 years ago, I went to Washington DC to protest this insanity. I was in a wheel chair because of an injury I'd recently sustained. It was exhausting, but I was there because I believed in showing my distaste for the way in which this country was using the people who were willing to sacrifice a part of their life to protect it. I would go again, if I was able.. I feel even more strongly against what we are doing today than I did then.
That doesn't mean I don't recognize the need for the job my husband does, even if the sense of duty inspiring him and his brothers is allowing them to be used and abused.
Soldiers ARE different from everybody else. They are the ones with the backbone to stand up and fight for what they believe in... but trust me, most of them would rather not HAVE to.
Soldiers are remarkably enough, more often than not, just as anti-war as anybody else, if not moreso. What a war means to you is that you get something to bitch about, criticize other people for, and you might possibly feel some economic strain.
What a war means for a soldier is a risk to their life, less time spent with their loved ones, and seeing things that no human being should ever have to.
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/32/l_f1b1c6f1f4a84d18872018367b293e51.jpg
That is the symbol of what I wish for. A time in which we can have both freedom and peace. A time when we choose to build instead of destroy. I feel so passionately about it that I had it put on my body permanently. Until Utopia exists, however, we will have a military, and politicians will remain corrupt and use that military in ways they probably should not.
If you think soldiers want war, want to go to war, get off on killing or being in danger, or any of the other things I've seen you express here... then you obviously know a damn sight less than you think you do.
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