Is the war affecting your life?

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 3:05 pm

we need a ROTFLMAO smiley, stat!!

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:16 am

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.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:37 am

The atrocity in Russia has without doubt affected me more than the entire so-

called "war" in Iraq.

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:07 am

kesann wrote:

We in North America have never had to feel the effects of war waged on our soil.
well, never is a long time. true, in 140 years, we've not felt the effects of war waged on our soil. but let's not forget the civil war.

however, in the time since the revolutionary war which started this nation, no foreign invaders have ever waged battle on our land, indeed.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 3:21 pm

I do dread the fact that my son will have to register for the draft in 13 months.

Do you still have the draft?

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:47 pm

well, yeah, there's that too. :yahoo_big

hey, i'm a product of the public school system. my knowledge of history sucks. in fact, i'm in the process of reading a high school world history text book, published in 1968. i'm learning quite a lot that apparently i must have been out sick for during my formal education.

Suresh Gupta · Post by **Suresh Gupta** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:20 am

Yes war, any war, affects the life of people. The world has become so much interlinked that war in one corner will affect people living in opposite corner. My country, India, has fought four wars and our lives have been affected too much. Even wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have affected us. I wish for a world where there will be no wars.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:43 am

Whatever happened to "Make Love Not WaR?

Suresh Gupta · Post by **Suresh Gupta** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:20 am

capt_buzzard wrote: Whatever happened to "Make Love Not WaR?

Love is a form of God. When we love others then in fact we pay our respects to God.

A Karenina · Post by **A Karenina** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:56 am

capt_buzzard wrote: Whatever happened to "Make Love Not WaR?
Making love takes too long. With the advent of AIDS we now have to test ourselves and our partners before having a truly good time.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:13 pm

plazul wrote: We have an all volunteer army but the draft can be brought back in a crisis. Every male must register with the Selective Service when he turns 18 and carry his registration card.

I still have my draft card. I was 4F with a pituitary tumor and cops skoffed when I got carded. That happened a lot to long hairs during the Sixties and Seventies.

Quite a few young bloods from the US headed to Ireland during the 1960s/70s to escape. Some told us they were tourists on a career/college break. And some stayed here never to return.

Suresh Gupta · Post by **Suresh Gupta** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:43 pm

A Karenina wrote: Making love takes too long. With the advent of AIDS we now have to test ourselves and our partners before having a truly good time.

I thinkyou got it wrong. Is making love only physical?