Okay . . .

[jlh]

As Yogi Berra said, it's like deja vu all over again. ladylisse, I know exactly how you feel. The invasion of Kuwait occurred during the summer before my senior year of college. I remember driving to work that summer and seeing troup trucks stuffed with young men my own age driving down the highway, with everyone honking their horns. I grew up in a tiny rural town where the miliary is a popular career, so tons of my high school friends went to the Gulf in 1990-91, including the then-boyfriend of one of my best friends. I remember a local radio station that summer taping a morning show to send to the troups, and everyone called in to make dedications to their friends; the mother of the most popular kid in our high school class (he's a really great guy, btw) called in to request the song we sang at our high school graduation, "Stand By Me", and dedicated it to all the Class of '87 kids from my school in the gulf, and I had to pull over in the car because I was crying. I remember C's father, who had been in Vietnam, saying that he would send C to South America rather than see him drafted. I remember wearing a yellow ribbon while yelling "No war for oil!" in the middle of Boston that fall. I was the living embodiment of "against the war, supporting the troups."

In a book about Napoleon III, Karl Marx famously said that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce. But wasn't the Gulf War a farce, really?


In other scary news, my friends, particularly eccentricfemme and P (the Seamus model) could be shot while getting their mail. Be careful, guys. I'm thinking of you.

Comments

[ex-thezeppo783.livejournal.com]

My history professor used to paraphrase the Marx quote.

First time: tragedy.
Second time: farce.
Third time: pantomine.

Guess where we are?

[eccentricfemme.livejournal.com]

*boogles Clio* Thanks babe. Here's hoping they catch the bastard soon.

[thalialuna.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Americans must be feeling on the brink of momentous events at the moment, and threatened by their own government and their own citizens. In Oz, we're just wondering if our troops really are going over there. If a war starts, it's a definate what with our Prime Minister pissing in Bush's pocket all the time. ::sighs:: Let's all hope the UN holds Bush off.