I have had a perfectly lousy day. I am tired and crabby. I was going non-stop from 7:15 this morning until getting home from choir just now. My nerves are frazzled.
......and I walked in the door and my husband is listening to The Annointed One and he has the TV turned up really loud and THAT VOICE drives me right up the wall so I am in here with the door shut listening to a CD cranked up really loud.
There is a soldier in NE Wisconsin who, while home on leave from Iraq, decided the war is immoral and decided not to go back. He has been given a deadline to return, after which he will be declared AWOL. He has been all over the news telling his story and making his case, such as it is. One of the women in my theatre group asked me what I thought of it. I told her I preferred to concentrate on the 3500 SOLDIERS WHO ARE WILLINGLY DOING THEIR DUTY......the ones who just left for TX and will be heading to Iraq. She said, well, he sure is getting a lot of attention. I said yes, and it's a shame.
Have I mentioned recently how really really really grateful I am for all of your support, you ATRW-ers?
'Cuz believe me, I get a lot of rolled eyes and "I just don't understand why they're still over there" when I tell people about Ev's deployment. Much more than last time. And it gets to me. It SHOULDN'T, but it DOES. The other day I got an earful of "we should just stop invading everybody" and "the economy is bad! Why are we spending money on war?" from a university student. I reminded him that we didn't start this fight, and that our national security trumps every other issue, but he just walked away.
Anyway....I've been on the verge of breaking down in tears all day long and I think I'll go do that right now.
Good night everyone.