"His anger made him suddenly sober. His whole life had been a fight to attain the impossible. Son of a mother who deserted him when he was three. Father, an Irish prizefighter who dies from a lucky punch from a third-rate kid. A life growing up on his own in [1930's] South Philadelphia. Enlisting in the Air Force at seventeen because anything seemed better than the world he knew. Then the war... being in the midst of it... seeing guys you lived with and slept with catch a bullet at your side... wondering why they got it and not you. They had families who were waiting for them at home. Families and sweethearts who wrote long letters and sent food packages. And gradually the idea hits you that maybe they got your bullet because there was something back there, waiting to be done... by you. and it's your job to go back and do it. He fele he had been given luck - luck to accomplish the impossible. And he had to make good so that the the guy who got his bullet would undestand. he wasn't religious, but he believed in paying his dues. That had always been his philosophy, and it still was"
- "Once is Not Enough" by Jacqueline Sussann
... now don't get me wrong. I am against the continued presence of the military in the middle east. I would like to find a peaceful two-state solution in Israel... and I think George W Bush is a bumbling imbecile with the luckiest swing in American politics... but there may be something to armed service if men were taught to think liek this....
Yes, war is always a nightmare, reaching back to however far there has been a record of how man can brutalize his neighbour and probably further. But somewhere on a larger scale there was always a sense of boundary. created by technology, religion or morals, probably a mix of all three, it kept civility in the pursuit for power... somewhere in the 20th century that was obliviated... and now there is only fear, and dirty plays, and sucker punches...
not sure why this popped out at me today when i was reading, but it did... anyway... back to our regularily scheduled program of fluff,oddities, narcissim and good tunes... i promise
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