Spring Break
Mother's Day
Renee Roman Nose
Issue date: 5/12/08 Section: Forum
We cannot undo what has already been sown; we can only try to clean up our mess. We can only look at those thousands of white flags and wonder when the tragedy that has been wreaked upon both our nations by a man who was busy dancing with his daughter at her wedding this weekend while our soldiers continue fighting for their lives, when might both nations begin to recover from this?
How much more will this cost our nation? How many billions more that we do not have and will have to borrow yet again from other nations to keep going ourselves? I do not profess to be a political science major, an accountant or a politician.
I am a mother. I have children who are eligible for a draft that seems inevitable to me if we continue on the path that we are on.
I don't have answers. I have questions that I would like answers to, though. As a mother, as the daughter of a veteran, the niece of a veteran, the sister of a veteran, the granddaughter of a veteran - I have a lot of questions.
How can we find a solution to the conflicts that we are in? How can we bring our soldiers home so that they can celebrate the next Mother's Day with their own mothers, or with their own children? How can we care for the tens of thousands of soldiers who have been injured, physically and mentally, in these two wars? How can we resolve the conflict in Iraq? How can we help them to create their own, stable, government without imposing our own cultural values and methods of self-governance upon them?
What can you and I do? Really? Well, first of all we can make our opinions known at the ballot box. We can vote for someone who has solutions for our world, our country, our states and our neighborhood. Vote, be vocal, write letters make phone calls and be active. The alternative is not one that we want to consider.
If you are concerned about racism in our community then join your local chapter of the NAACP and be an active member, voting for leadership that will make a difference in our lives and those of future generations.
How much more will this cost our nation? How many billions more that we do not have and will have to borrow yet again from other nations to keep going ourselves? I do not profess to be a political science major, an accountant or a politician.
I am a mother. I have children who are eligible for a draft that seems inevitable to me if we continue on the path that we are on.
I don't have answers. I have questions that I would like answers to, though. As a mother, as the daughter of a veteran, the niece of a veteran, the sister of a veteran, the granddaughter of a veteran - I have a lot of questions.
How can we find a solution to the conflicts that we are in? How can we bring our soldiers home so that they can celebrate the next Mother's Day with their own mothers, or with their own children? How can we care for the tens of thousands of soldiers who have been injured, physically and mentally, in these two wars? How can we resolve the conflict in Iraq? How can we help them to create their own, stable, government without imposing our own cultural values and methods of self-governance upon them?
What can you and I do? Really? Well, first of all we can make our opinions known at the ballot box. We can vote for someone who has solutions for our world, our country, our states and our neighborhood. Vote, be vocal, write letters make phone calls and be active. The alternative is not one that we want to consider.
If you are concerned about racism in our community then join your local chapter of the NAACP and be an active member, voting for leadership that will make a difference in our lives and those of future generations.
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Brett Nunley
posted 5/12/08 @ 2:02 PM PST
Seriously, I can't believe George Bush had the chutzpah to attend his daughter's wedding! He should be in a flak and kevlar fighting along side our men just like Bill Clinton did in Somalia. (Continued…)
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