Saturday, November 8, 2008
Depressing Reminder of Reality
We ate lunch in the Central West End today which is a pretty nice area that's got a fair number of good restaurants and the like. We were walking back from an incredibly satisfying lunch. Walking towards us was a young man in military uniform accompanied by his parents. On the side of the street was one of those random slightly crazy guys who seem to be around in big cities. As the young man passed by, the guy pointedly asked him, "how's it going soldier boy" with a mocking tone. Without pause, the young man evenly replied, "it's alright, I'm still alive." Wow. That's not something you hear everyday as a response to the question of how are you.
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Christ, it's easy to forget how lucky you are until you hear something like that. It'll be interesting to see how the "War on Terror" is dealt with in Bush's last two months and Obama's first year or so of presidency.
That's just a little awkward...c
you shoulda saluted him. or something, applauded.
Um...to gdub, where does politics fit into any of this?
Just a random thought. My brain linked "soldier" to "current conflict" to "Iraq War."
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