----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:10 PM Subject: Re: I have a new hero
> On 4/18/07, Robert G. Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> ... his heroic acts during the >> tragic events of April 16th 2007 in the Virginia Polytechnic >> Institute >> and State University campus, when professor Librescu saved his >> students' lives at the cost of his own". > > > The sort of thing that happens every day in Iraq... Ahhhhhhhhh......no it doesn't.....no no no.....not at all. > > I heard today that Stanford held a memorial in which they read the > names of > the Virginia Tech students who died. I can't help but feel > frustrated that > while they were so quick to identify with the victims of that > insanity, > where are the memorials to the mostly college-age people who are > sacrificing > themselves in the war? If it makes sense to identify with unwilling > victims > of senseless violence, doesn't it make even more sense to identify > with > those who willingly put themselves in harm's way, even if you > believe that > the cause in Iraq is just as senseless as the crime in Virginia? Nick? Are you weirding out on us? What would ever make you think that people do not identify with our soldiers and their families? My wife and I discuss that particular issue regularly. And more, my wife in particular goes out of her way to befriend the wives of military men. Even the most strongly anti-war folks I know take pride in our military people. There have been quite a few memorials to our fighting soldiers of the sort held at Stanford for the VT victims (among other places) over the last few years. Where have you been? The only reason there is not some hulking physical monument to our Veterans of Iraq is that the war is not over yet. BTW, Happy Patriot Day! > > About a year ago, I watched a high school senior speak with tears > pouring > down her face about the story she had helped a Gold Star family > produce > about their son who was killed in Iraq. She said that what made it > so very > powerful was that he and the the others whose stories we were > telling were > only a year or two older than she was. > > David Brin has written and spoken much about "otherness." One of > the most > discouraging things about living with Wes' sacrifice in Iraq -- and > all the > others -- is that they seem to be treated by most people as "other," > rather > than the strong identification that students have with those killed > in > Virginia. Bah.........you underestimate one and overestimate the other. >Or their fascination Anna friggin' Nicole Smith, etc. How about Sanjaya? > > Right now, I feel shouting at every college student who is thinking, > "That > could have been me," to consider that the same is true for the > 3,300+ who > made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq. Big difference Nick. You have to choose to join the military to go to Iraq to be shot at. The students and staff of VT were given no choice in the matter. > > Today I had the pleasure of telling another Vietnam vet, "Welcome > home." > Kinda late for that now, isn't it? xponent Within Limitations Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
