Monday, February 7, 2005

A Child's Lesson - War is Wrong

I was born in 1962. I can remember growing up watching the funerals of or leaders in between my cartoons. I can remember watching all the college students protest the war. I can remember the older kids in my neighborhood being scared because they were going to be drafted. I can remember the cousin of my neighbor who came home from the war and he wasn't the same person I knew before he went to the war. I can remember when our president was caught in a lie and was impeached. I was only a child.....and I knew war was wrong. I thought after what we lived through in my childhood, we would never have war again. I thought as a child we learned our lesson...I thought there wouldn't be all this craziness again in my life time.  

My son was born in 1998. He is living the same things I lived as a child. He is living with war...with a president who lies...with death, wounded physically and mentally soldiers. With protest...  With no peace. With not doing right for all.....  

When will we learn our lessons?  

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