This is the first post I am writing directly into the blog without first typing it into a word document and then copying it here. My whole blog description of "Rachelese" really applies here...
When 9/11 happened and the towers came down and the Pentagon was burning and a field in Pennsylvania had plane parts and body parts and luggage with the memories of the people that owned them burning in the grass..... I was in tenth grade. I wrote the following a few weeks after it happened. I was 15...
"America the beautiful. For liberty and justice for all. United we stand. In God we trust. These are all sayings Americans live by, the sayings into which Americans put their faith and hope. After the recent attacks on our nation, these sayings are said with a certain determination. It's as if a few simple words can strengthen the weakened spirits of Americans and fill our hearts with hope.
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon made Americans stumble but we will not fall. The hatred and determination of those responsible are not half as strong as the love and determination Americans have. America is internally divided by racial, social and political issues. It may take a few buildings to fall for us to come together, but when we do, we come together hard. With a force that should intimidate anyone that tries to do anything to America. We have become an angry mob of bees protecting our hive from intruders. We will protect America at all costs, just as bees protect their hive. More lives may be lost, but the people responsible will pay. We will make America free from fear and injustice. The thousands of people that lost their lives in the September 11th attack will be honored.
America. Land of the free and home of the brave."
After 9/11 the country banded together.... I don't think I heard the words "Republican" and "Democrat" until halfway through 2003.
Is it gonna take another attack on American soil for everyone (including the politicians) to wake the hell up and prioritize what is important enough to bicker about????
Seriously. I have friends that I love dearly....I get on Facebook and this person posts this about that and it is way Democrat.... I scroll down and that person posts that about this and it is way Republican....
I am in no way, shape or form knocking the beliefs anyone has.....I myself have strong ideas and values....and some are "Republican" and some are "Democrat". Example..... Marry whomever you want to...if you are a woman and you want to marry a woman...I think you should and I think you should have the same rights to benefits and what not that I have being married to a man....however, if anyone tries to take away my right to have guns in my house we are gonna have some issues.
Do you want to know who I voted for the last election? I didn't. I didn't vote. If I had I probably would have done a write in vote or whatever and voted for Midnight as president with Mooshie as her vice. Their first action as leaders would have been Beggin' Strips for all.
Seriously though....why should I vote when it isn't gonna matter anyway. Before anyone gets all "But Rachel...you are in the military...you shouldn't say these things".... I am not saying anything in this post that is knocking my boss. I am not saying anything about him that can be considered bad. I am not saying anything about anyone specific at all. I am, however, saying that those with the money make the calls and after the electoral votes are counted....we have no real say in what happens in this country. We like to think we do....but we don't.
We are blind. We are sleeping. I choose to be blind and sleeping because it hurts less than being informed but not able to do a damn thing about it. I choose to purposefully be uninformed and ignore the news and ignore what is going on around me because A) if I do...it will piss me off B) the job I chose to do says I can't speak out or partake in activities against certain things and if I inform myself...I might care too much about some things to keep my mouth shut. C) a combination of A and B ...and D).....if I am ignorant and stay in LaLa Land...somehow that makes me feel better.
Don't judge me for that..... don't judge me for staying in LaLa Land... with all the way left side stuff you see and the way right side stuff you see...how do you even know which is the "right" stuff? How do you know the opinion you have or the things you choose to believe are "correct"? What makes them "correct" or "right"...because so-n-so said so or this religion said so or you had a soup and a salad at lunch so it has to be true?
Sometimes people at work ask me "What do you think about yadda yadda blah blah overseas whatnots mclalala" and I give them a blank stare and they judge me because I am uniformed and wearing a uniform...
I wear the uniform because of what I wrote when I was 15 years old. I didn't join the military right out of high school like some people did...I didn't join because of 9/11. I joined because I am a damn American and I want to protect my homeland from whatever might threaten us.... But lately it seems that a lot of what threatens us is our own internal division and I can't fix that. It makes me sad.
It makes me very sad.
America. Land of the free and home of the brave....... please?
Keep livin' the American dream,
~Turtle
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