All right guys...I've cancelled my account. Sooo it's gonna die. I have various reasons for leaving (one of them being money and another being lack of time to spend on here)...but I want you all to know (for those of you that have commented and have become a part of my life) that I lub you. Anyway...yea. It won't be dead completely I think until August 11...So if you want to keep in contact with me you will have plenty of time to write down my AIM s/n and also my email...which is:
DragonRider85@msn.com
I wish you all the best of luck and the best of happiness.
Love,
Tara C. H. (AKA T.C.)
"Don't cry for me The Cheat-entina."
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Well, just got back from a lunch date with Kyle. We had an interesting conversation with one of his co-workers who is new to the country and just signed up for citizenship. His name is Alex. Our discussion was about the possibility of the draft, and whether or not we would go to Iraq (or whatever war it might be at the time).
Kyle said he would move to Canada if it was for the war in Iraq, I have similar feelings...But Alex was very adamant about the fact that if we did that, it would be because we are using this country to get what we want and reaping all the benefits without performing our duty.
So Kyle's argument was that he would go to Canada because Iraq is not a war he believes in, that he would not want to go over to Iraq just to kill people that have never threatened him or this country, and it's a war based on lies. His "moral compass" wouldn't allow him to do it, he said, because it crosses over this line that he has set for himself.
And Alex repeated himself. I hadn't said much up to this point, other than to respond to one of Alex's query, "You think soldiers ask their generals or their commanders, 'Why are we here?'"
To which I said, "Yes. The soldiers in Iraq ask that question almost everyday."
My response to Alex's comment that we were "Using the system" was that in America, we have a right to say that it's something we don't believe in, that we have a right to speak up and protest, we have the right to question our government, especially when it comes to a war that's so obviously based on nothing but lies and deceit...
I guess maybe I don't really know where Alex is coming from. I realize that he was raised very differently than I was, and that maybe he has a higher sense of duty than I do...But my thought about him was that he was trying to prove himself as an American patriot or something...like he needed so badly to show that he was a citizen by supporting any war, by saying he would give his life for a country that gives him so much.
But then I thought, "But you shouldn't have to give your life so needlessly."
Am I wrong? I thought that part of being a "patriot" and being a part of this country meant having rights to say no and question the morals of a war and make our own choices and decisions...
I dunno. I still believe that, but I guess my question to pose to you guys is,
If there was a draft, and you were called upon, what would be your response? (Let's just say it's a draft that will send you to Iraq or some other questionable war that we might be fighting at the time).
DragonRider85@msn.com
I wish you all the best of luck and the best of happiness.
Love,
Tara C. H. (AKA T.C.)
"Don't cry for me The Cheat-entina."
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Well, just got back from a lunch date with Kyle. We had an interesting conversation with one of his co-workers who is new to the country and just signed up for citizenship. His name is Alex. Our discussion was about the possibility of the draft, and whether or not we would go to Iraq (or whatever war it might be at the time).
Kyle said he would move to Canada if it was for the war in Iraq, I have similar feelings...But Alex was very adamant about the fact that if we did that, it would be because we are using this country to get what we want and reaping all the benefits without performing our duty.
So Kyle's argument was that he would go to Canada because Iraq is not a war he believes in, that he would not want to go over to Iraq just to kill people that have never threatened him or this country, and it's a war based on lies. His "moral compass" wouldn't allow him to do it, he said, because it crosses over this line that he has set for himself.
And Alex repeated himself. I hadn't said much up to this point, other than to respond to one of Alex's query, "You think soldiers ask their generals or their commanders, 'Why are we here?'"
To which I said, "Yes. The soldiers in Iraq ask that question almost everyday."
My response to Alex's comment that we were "Using the system" was that in America, we have a right to say that it's something we don't believe in, that we have a right to speak up and protest, we have the right to question our government, especially when it comes to a war that's so obviously based on nothing but lies and deceit...
I guess maybe I don't really know where Alex is coming from. I realize that he was raised very differently than I was, and that maybe he has a higher sense of duty than I do...But my thought about him was that he was trying to prove himself as an American patriot or something...like he needed so badly to show that he was a citizen by supporting any war, by saying he would give his life for a country that gives him so much.
But then I thought, "But you shouldn't have to give your life so needlessly."
Am I wrong? I thought that part of being a "patriot" and being a part of this country meant having rights to say no and question the morals of a war and make our own choices and decisions...
I dunno. I still believe that, but I guess my question to pose to you guys is,
If there was a draft, and you were called upon, what would be your response? (Let's just say it's a draft that will send you to Iraq or some other questionable war that we might be fighting at the time).
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lilmissmorbid:
You will be missed.
katiejane:
i uncancelled my account. so you should too miss thang.