As gruesome and heart wrenching these videos and photos are, we must not turn away. We must keep our eyes wide open along with our aching hearts and our fierce desire to "do something."
During Vietnam the evening news showed clips of our troops in action, gaunt, battle worn, and surrounded by an aura of desperation. We saw bodies. We saw …
As gruesome and heart wrenching these videos and photos are, we must not turn away. We must keep our eyes wide open along with our aching hearts and our fierce desire to "do something."
During Vietnam the evening news showed clips of our troops in action, gaunt, battle worn, and surrounded by an aura of desperation. We saw bodies. We saw the wounded being carried to helicopters. We saw smoke and the burning of the jungles and the blowing up of homes of Vietnamese civilians. We saw Dover Air Force base - the hanger with its hundreds of coffins and flags. We saw lists of the dead - our boys and men. The dead were listed in our newspapers and named on TV. We here at home SAW that war and hated it and drew us into revolts and protests back home. (It also caused an unwarranted and mean-spirited attack on our soldiers when they returned from that war as if we were blaming THEM for being drafted and being forced to fight an unwelcome war.)
I am triggered now when I see what is going on in Ukraine by the feelings I had back then when I watched those horrific scenes night after night as a teen. And somehow, even though I want to throw up, throw SOMETHING, do SOMETHING, I am glad that MSM is finally, finally, getting over its squeamishness and beginning to bring that war into our homes and into our psyches with real scenes of the tragedy unfolding. It's going to take an outrage on a global scale to do that SOMETHING - whatever it is - and we have the means and media to involve this globe in that conflict. Maybe then, I hope, our collective horror at this genocide and our understanding of the monster behind it all will allow the SOMETHING to take place.
You know - that quantum theory - lots of butterfly wings SOMETHING?
As gruesome and heart wrenching these videos and photos are, we must not turn away. We must keep our eyes wide open along with our aching hearts and our fierce desire to "do something."
During Vietnam the evening news showed clips of our troops in action, gaunt, battle worn, and surrounded by an aura of desperation. We saw bodies. We saw the wounded being carried to helicopters. We saw smoke and the burning of the jungles and the blowing up of homes of Vietnamese civilians. We saw Dover Air Force base - the hanger with its hundreds of coffins and flags. We saw lists of the dead - our boys and men. The dead were listed in our newspapers and named on TV. We here at home SAW that war and hated it and drew us into revolts and protests back home. (It also caused an unwarranted and mean-spirited attack on our soldiers when they returned from that war as if we were blaming THEM for being drafted and being forced to fight an unwelcome war.)
I am triggered now when I see what is going on in Ukraine by the feelings I had back then when I watched those horrific scenes night after night as a teen. And somehow, even though I want to throw up, throw SOMETHING, do SOMETHING, I am glad that MSM is finally, finally, getting over its squeamishness and beginning to bring that war into our homes and into our psyches with real scenes of the tragedy unfolding. It's going to take an outrage on a global scale to do that SOMETHING - whatever it is - and we have the means and media to involve this globe in that conflict. Maybe then, I hope, our collective horror at this genocide and our understanding of the monster behind it all will allow the SOMETHING to take place.
You know - that quantum theory - lots of butterfly wings SOMETHING?