Over the last six months or so I’ve become really fascinated with the Iraq war.
I’m not for this war what so ever! I’ve come to finally realized that the United states is in the longest war involving U.S. soldiers since Vietnam, and the costliest since W.W.II. This is our generation going through this. Those are our brothers and boyfriends and pieces of our families over there fighting and everybody just wants to pretend that nothing’s going on.
I really don’t understand where all the flower children have gone? The Iraq war looks like the American experience in vietnam only no one wants to have a voice or rally against this war. One of the most obvious reasons to me why people aren’t marching against this was is because there hasn’t been a draft. Another reason i think may be because people aren’t really getting to see what’s going on over there. Unlike vietnam we don’t get to see the coffins arrive on the air-force base and the president doesn't attend military funerals and the television never shows the dead solders or the wounded ones. All these things combined kill the wars impact on our society.
It just hurts my heart see our country go through this and to see that people don’t want to stand up for it. Even people that are for this war aren’t standing out and showing there pride. It’s like America is numb to this whole thing. I feel like it going to come and bite us right in the butt and we are going to have no idea what to do or how to handle it.
