Re: Freedom of speech
And the miracle of it all is that the figure they burn in effigy is the very figure that gives them the right to do so.
Not sure about the feelings that image stirs up in the rest of you, but I lost friends in the Pentagon 9/11. I was stationed in DC at the time. I was there a few hours later, helping in any way I could. Unimagineable.
22 years, 3 wars.
I don't feel anger at that video. I just feel sick to my stomach. Truly, physically ill. I'm left speechless and winded. I dont know what my older brothers felt like when they came home in the sixties, I was just a kid. I know that all the times I came home America made up for the way my brothers and their comrades were treated. I felt lucky. I remembered what they did to the Nam vets. What a shame.
I am really having feelings I havent had since I left Iraq right now. I guess thats a little too much info for some of you. Sorry. I know it a different war, a different country, but for the first time, I think I know what those other guys felt. Its a lousy feeling.