Monday, January 28, 2008
America's Soliders
After looking at Army of Dude's blog, I am filled with both a feeling of sentiment and respect for the soldiers overseas. I do not think that they get enough credit for the work they do. The picture he has posted on his blog are that not only of great photography, but they actually pull the reader/ viewer into his world. These pictures are not ones you see in the papers caught on film by an outsider looking in, but those of an actual soldier that lives his life this way. Each day these soldiers are filled with both courage and fear of what is to come, risking their lives for their fellow American citizens, most of which they do not actually know. War is depicted by movies, television specials, and books, but none of us civilians really actually know what it is like to live in a world filled with terror. America mostly fights all it's wars overseas with the exception of a couple of terrorist attacks over the past couple of years. Those days instated a great amount of suffering and loss- a loss that the people of the Middle East have to face everyday. I could not ever imaging living in that kind of world. Having the freedom that America has does not come easy. We have these great soldiers to thank for risking our lives so we can live ours without punishment and persecution.
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Yes, Army of Dude is a fantastic blog because just like you put it, it gives us the insider's view of the war, and how it is a mixture of boredom and routine punctuated by moment of terror and fear. And it's all going on all the time over there and we don't think about it enough. I think everyone should read Silverlight's blog post on Foreign Policy, though, because I tend to agree with him that the US should use its soldiers for the defense of our nation, not to intervene in other countries' affairs. Iraq is less stable since we invaded, and as we all now know, there were no weapons of mass destruction, and no links to Al Quaida at the time--although there now have developed some Al Quaida cells there.
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