Reply #18: Juan_de_la_Dem... [View All]

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that was beautifully written, and heart-wrenching.

About 3 years ago I also came across a fatal accident just after it happened, quite close to my house. I've seen a lot of car accidents over the years but this one was particularly disturbing, as I clearly saw the victim slumped partially out of the car, and only one lone police car on the scene. It's the closest I've ever come face-to-face with violent death, and it had a profound effect on me.

I didn't make the connection that you did, but I can certainly understand how you got from A to B and then to outrage and the urge to act. The reality of this war hits me from time to time, usually when I am alone with my thoughts in my car, and I find myself crying or just screaming in frustration. It's so easy to go through the tasks of my daily life, having periodic (actually frequent) intellectual conversations with others about the disaster that is this war and this adminstration, but every once in awhile it REALLY hits me, in the heart and the gut rather than just the brain.

Thanks for your post, and the reminder that we MUST keep fighting, in any way we can, to end this war.