I dunno...this guy I knew from back in my farmer worker girl days just got shot to death in Afganistan. He was two years younger than me...and I'm young. I just saw his picture on the news. It seems like 2-3 Canadians are getting killed there every week...
At thanksgiving dinner a couple weeks ago my mom's best friend (who's an air force doctor and just got back from six months in Kandahar) was telling horrible, graphic stories of what it's like. God. Both my parents are in the air force, and people, our military is TINY. Any given American air force base has more people than our entire air force. My mom won't go because she has an injury that requires surgery, but my dad might. They're like, 50. No fucking way they should go get blown up at this point in their lives for a war no one understands. Doctor Officer Lady was saying "afganistan is our Vietnam", on and on. Talking about these young kids getting limbs blown off, getting infections so bad from bugs their bodies aren't used to...rashes to the point their skin peels off. Then shot at, bombed, for what what what? All these kids who go to RMC so they can have a free education...are now getting shipped off the second they graduate.
Some of her stories were funny, like a guy who offered two camels to her commanding officer because he thought a white doctor as a wife would be the shit.
I dunno. My pacifistic ramblings are not well informed, but this 'peacekeeping' mission seems horribly mislead. I know how many young people are dying in Iraq...but even 'the american war' seemed far off. I'm just so sad that kid died. So sad. Wow. It's hard to imagine...I knew him as this friendly, freckled kid.
uch. Wow. Just had to get it off my chest. I'm a military brat who grew up with all these folks who loved our country, and wanted to fight for it. Now so many are bitter and don't get it. I don't get it.



. I just saw his picture on the news. It seems like 2-3 Canadians are getting killed there every week...
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