Is the war affecting your life?

[plazul]

Most of us watch the war news and carry on with our every day lives without thinking about it. Tonight, I saw a local news story about a Guard unit going to Iraq for a year and a half. The story featured a father of five children proud to fight for his country but his wife and children were weeping.

Has the war affected your life? In what way? Do you have a family member in Iraq? If so, how do they view the war and how do you view their sacrafice?

[jwolf7722]

here is what i think. what happens if they start finding ways to kidnap americans in there own country and kill them. i thought of this last night as a i was running in a wooded area thinking who knows 5 people could jump out and kidnap me and go behead me. i guess that is just one of my fears but it does make me think sometimes,

[plazul]

I never thought of that...What if terrorists in America started kidnapping citizens at random, beheading them, and putting the videos on the web? Serial killers often go for years before they're captured so clever terrorists could have a field day kidnapping Americans and chopping off their heads.

That would sure spook the population!

[jwolf7722]

i know it kinda makes you think. i know one person is nothing to them but imagin what kinda of scare it would put on america.

[jayboy]

Don’t play their game, if you do they win. What I know is after I post this I might swallow the wrong way and choke to death. Or I might cross the street preoccupied and become road kill. Or one of my ex girl friends father or brothers might kill me. Or I might be driving perfectly and some nut comes around a blind corner on the wrong side of the road, he might get me or I stupidly may swerve to avoid him and go off a cliff. At any rate many, many, many more are snuffed daily than are killed in total by terrorists, but scare us is their plan. If we spend ANY time gnashing teeth or wringing hands in desperation life will pass us by and we may be alive but dead as an entity. Don’t please them. Just give them the bird at every opportunity. My best friend who for some reason believes he is canine gives you all a high four and to Al Quiter heflips a big bird. He's a good friend and a hell of a guy.

[anastrophe]

we need a ROTFLMAO smiley, stat!!

[kesann]

War is not directly affecting my life. I can wake up, work,play and go to bed with the assurance that all will be well in the morning.
That being said, I do sometimes get preoccupied with thoughts of war...I certainly worry about the people of the Sudan, regular folk, just trying to eke out a living, who are caught in the middle of terrible warfare...the people of Chechynea(spelling?),...the Israelis and the Palestinians.

We in North America have never had to feel the effects of war waged on our soil. I magine the Iraqi children who have lived for 14 years with bombs being dropped on their country.

There are no easy answers. War is simple...it's peace that is complex.

[Peg]

I guess it is not affecting me directly because I can get up every morning knowing I can carry on with my normal (or not so normal) life. I do dread the fact that my son will have to register for the draft in 13 months. I don't want either of my children going into the military. This may be the wrong attitude to have, but I don't know how people keep from driving themselves insane when a family member is fighting a war.

[kesann]

In the sixties, during the Viet Nam era, I worked ,here in Canada, at a treatment centre for disturbed children.

We hired many child care staff who were draft dodgers, young men of good conscience who could not participate in the war. Partly because of their conscience, and partly because they desperately missed their families, these young men were some of the best child care staff we ever had. They were committed to their treatment families, and did well by them.

An off shoot is that most of them stayed in Canada..some went on to illustrious careers, as university professors,authors,etc.
It must be a terrible thing to have to worry about losing one's child to war. Even if the child(young man/woman)survives the experience, they will have seen things and had to do things that most of us cannot even imagine.

[Bill Sikes]

The atrocity in Russia has without doubt affected me more than the entire so-
called "war" in Iraq.