If you dislike brief Diaries or ones with some foul language please keep scrolling. Also if you think I am attacking, even remotely, the amazing work of the IGTNT Diaries you'll be mistaken. But I am at my breaking point.
I am a news junkie. I can have on MSNBC for hours and hours a day. It seems politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, can get fired up about almost anything. I can't really recall anybody mad, yelling about our wars and the cost in both lives and treasure.
What the fuck! I've gone to a number of war protests in my area and generally speaking I can fit all the folks that attend in my kitchen if not my car. Where is the anger? Where is the outrage?
I live near a huge military base. In the evenings or early AM when I run I see multiple houses that have a Gold Star with a candle by it in a window. Sadly some died in our current wars. But often they are honoring people that died decades before.
When your loved one dies in war it isn't something you soon forget.
I am just at a loose .... I mean how many more of our fellow citizens have to die before we say enough is enough?
I often mention here I come from a military and a Republican family. We get along to some extent cause I don't forward off to them every liberal thing I read (even if they often send them to me).
That has changed in the past month or so as I forwarded off to them the IGTNT Diaries. Turned in very heated conversations.
I just explain if they are going to promote war then they ought to read a little about those giving their lives. They have more then a name, age, rank, and home town.
Ain't nearly as easy to support a war when you read their daughter misses them. They are not around to coach their little league team. Their parents feel like their hearts have been ripped out.
But there is so little protest. Outrage. A call to end this shit. It is almost like our default position as fucking Americans is just to watch the news each night and hear 4, 5, 20 of our fellow Americans died in some far off land fighting for something nobody can seem to explain.
How sad is that. Not sure what I can do about it .... but I am going to find something cause I've reached my breaking point. I assume many here have reached it long before now, but this shit just can't stand. It must end now!