Red Letter Year - February 20th, 2008

I almost never post on here anymore, but I made a comment on some online blog somewhere today and I wanted to share it with you.

In America we have this gag order we place on each other.  We don’t talk about the war, we don’t dialogue, we just put tape on each other’s mouths—support the troops.  How can I support someone who willingly signs up and carries out what I know in my heart, in my gut, to be so wrong and evil?  I don’t wish harm on anyone, of course, and I know these kids are coming home broken in every way which is something I can’t condone either, but to just quietly wave the flag because I’m a citizen?  I can’t do that either.  Supporting the troops silences the dialogue that we so desperately need now.  I won’t put that tape on my mouth or anyone else’s.