I miss the honky tonks, Dairy Queens, and 7-11s

One thing I despised about the Terri Schiavo case is how the Right took up the charge and made her the poster child for the "Right to Life." Not to be undone, now the Liberal Left has capitalized on Cindy Sheehan as a symbol of the anti-war movement. And the media has played its part in both cases. I'm obviously not the only person who feels this way, and they actually say it a lot better than me. LOL

I feel I am not qualified to sit here and demand the President and the government pull all of our troops out of Iraq this instant because I know it's complicated and so many things were fucked up not foreseen along the way that doing that might not be feasible. However, I do know I am upset more and more each day I read about soldiers killed by roadside bombs. NPR had a piece tonight about a young man from a very small town in Ohio who was killed in that terrible day they lost so many from one area. I know I can't even begin to empathize with a mother's pain of losing a child, but just the daily fear I face hoping they stay safe gives me an inkling of what it might be like.

So I might go to a support vigil tomorrow night, not to protest the war, not for the Left, but in solidarity for women who have lost children to the Iraq war like Cindy Sheehan- who has now whether she wanted to or not has a movement behind her.

On a related note, something that was said in the NPR story about Brett Wightman moved me. A high school friend, speaking to the interviewer commented that Brett accomplished more than she ever would, and another one of his friends interjected- and I'm paraphrasing here but, he said that we all have a destiny, we have our "niche" or what we can strive to be the best at- and that they owed it to people like Brett to live up to their fullest potential, as he did- since all he ever wanted to do was to serve.

Do you ever feel like sometimes this world needs a big reality check, and it's coming? Like Stephen King's "The Stand", or that song by The Talking Heads "Nothing But Flowers" some cosmic karma is going to come around like a giant reset button and have us start over without microwaves, cell phones, and Tivo.

Maudlin, I know.