non-cheery, not-wholly-articulate contempation
soldier student
There are numerous things to say about this, but the primary thing, to me, is this:
Ever since we were told that going shopping was a proper response to an unprecedented crises, the easiest course of action has been our (read: non-soldiers) insistence on going on with day-to-day affairs as if life was normal. That is a disservice. I am not sure if it's accurate to say that reminding yourself that others are sacrificing or being sacrificed (others means soldiers and regular schmucks in Iraq who can't live with any semblance of normalcy) every day may make you more cognizant of your own personal situation and the general situation Over There, but it certainly seems that way, just as it certainly seems that 99% of the cues we come across in our daily lives encourage us to continue on w/o so much as a thought about what we may owe to that larger thing to which we belong.
There are numerous things to say about this, but the primary thing, to me, is this:
Ever since we were told that going shopping was a proper response to an unprecedented crises, the easiest course of action has been our (read: non-soldiers) insistence on going on with day-to-day affairs as if life was normal. That is a disservice. I am not sure if it's accurate to say that reminding yourself that others are sacrificing or being sacrificed (others means soldiers and regular schmucks in Iraq who can't live with any semblance of normalcy) every day may make you more cognizant of your own personal situation and the general situation Over There, but it certainly seems that way, just as it certainly seems that 99% of the cues we come across in our daily lives encourage us to continue on w/o so much as a thought about what we may owe to that larger thing to which we belong.
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