deja vu and the Plane Flight Home

[JCMach1]

I can remember as a small kid watching a President going down kicking in Watergate and then one beautiful day, I remember the live coverage of the planes bringing home the soldiers and POW's from Vietnam...

It just struck me that history is, in fact, repeating itself in front of our eyes.

Just how soon do we get to see that beautiful sight?

[madfloridian]

1. We had real media then, jc.

:shrug:

[JCMach1]

2. America can't begin to heal until it does...

-all the dead
-all the maimed and disabled physically
-all the troops reliving their nightmares daily

Tell me what is the cost?

and when they come home to their families? How will they cope?

Over and over in my mind, I picture the walking wounded saved by today's medicine (who would have died in Vietnam)... but at a heavy, heavy price...
:cry:

So many of us farkin' tried to stop this disaster and nothing came of it... honestly, I just want to scream...

And, oh yeah, I get daily reminders at work... I have many Iraqi students as parents with enough funds get their boys and girls out of harms way and into college... but the toll goes on anyway... uncles, cousins, friends, I see that toll every day at work... dammit just make it stop!!!

[madfloridian]

3. When I write about some of the tragedies there...

I end up having to kick my own posts. The forums are all about 08 and sex outrages. I guess I can't get excited over Vitter and stuff like that, because it reminds me of the ugliness here in Florida over Clinton. I remember the teachers at lunch making jokes unmercifully.

Our news is not covering the things we are doing there.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1383

It must break your heart to see what you see and to hear what you hear.

[JCMach1]

5. It is definitely not cool... and trust me, the students here are the lucky

and the wealthy... what is left in Iraq anyway... Most will never go back any time soon. The best and the brightest have permanently fled.

The doctor who cut the tumor from my ear last week: IRAQI

The thing that really gets me is that with most Iraqis there is not so much anger at America as a disbelief about how all of this could happen... Even they had a kind of faith in the US that now has completely left them... The anger they have left is the anger of a handful of dust...

[madfloridian]

6. The disbelief will turn to more anger someday, jc

Look how much trouble we have believing we did it? I still can't take in what we did.

[demoleft]

4. Soon, I hope...

A word for the fallen ones.
One thing I appreciate in one American paper is the page of the Fallen, with names and faces of the fallen soldiers.
I already told here on DU. Italian media report numbers, not a damned name or a face. Just figures. People got used to it, don't even notice it.

In brit The Guardian today is reported the face and the name of the brit soldier dead in Afghanistan. You seem to imagine what's lost with his life just looking at the picture. http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,2125963,00.html
Death and tragedy become closer when you see the smiling hopeful faces of 21 year-old guys and girls Bush sent to die.

I hope the still living one come home soon. The sooner the better.

Ciao!

[madfloridian]

7. Yes, Bush did send them to die.

That is about the only way to put it.