I feel a little foolish, because fear didn't occur to me.
I live in a town of 1600 8 miles from a town of 17,500. We're 4 hours from St. Louis and 5 1/2 from Chicago. That kind of isolation seems pretty protective until your girlfriend brings home all the information about her required smallpx vaccine - she's one of the Nursing Supervisors at the local hospital. So then, like a dumbshit, you've got go read up on a little epidemiology ... so much for the comfort of living in the country.
My two youngest daughters and my grandson live in St. Louis, and the talking heads on television mention it every time they discuss a possible terrorist attack on a national monument or on the "heartland." Sometimes I worry - that's a lie, I ALWAYS worry - about them. That they'll get carjacked, that they'll get hit by a drunk driver while crossing the street, that some fuckwad will exercise his 2nd Ammendment rights to an automatic weapon somewhere near my grandson's school, that my daughters will meet a guy just like I was at their age ... all the dangers of having kids. Now I worry about the possibility of a terrorist attack too.
The frustrating thing about this war is that, while necessary, it won't do anything against the terrorists who threaten America except egg them on and recruit new bodies for them. While I am not particularly concerned about Iraqi sleepers, there are plenty more folks that can regard this as an attack on their people, and do stupid, horrible things. That frightens me more.
I remember being scared shitless as a 9 year old during the Cuban Missle Crisis - but that was over and gone after two weeks. This is different. I'm sorry you're frightened. I'm sorry I'm frightened. But we're going to war. People get frightened when they go to war. Innocent civilians get frightened when we go to war. We just aren't used to being equally afraid.
My children are adults, and I'm still scared for them. I can only imagine how I'd feel if they were still little and all this was going on.
But can you imagine what it's like to be in Baghdad right now?
Last edited by PornoDoggy at Feb 28 2003, 05:21 AM
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