From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 13:22:24 MST
Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/21/2003 6:16:14 PM Central Standard Time,
> deepbluehalo@earthlink.net quotes: "But you have no idea what ever what
> goes through the mind of a silver haired hawk. You know only to grab a
> handy slogan that you can shout in front of your private Amen chorus."
>
> and then writes: "Fascinating. You claim to have served yet the thought
> of a young and (perhaps foolish) Marine who will never walk again does
> not seem so very horrific to you."
>
> Sir,
> Is it that you cannot read or that you refuse to read? My
> sympathies are entirely with those young hawks that are serving in our
> military. My entire argument has been accepting the responsibility of
> seeing to it that our young hawks are not taken into a war and wasted.
> You like Samantha wish to use these pages to spout slogans instead of
> trying to understand what is going on.
Do you think that you are inside of my head, "sir"? Do you
believe for a moment that you understand the deep abhorrence I
felt from watching the horror of Vietnam, what it did to this
country or those who came back mangled in body, mind or spirit
many of whom I knew and dealt with personally? Do you imagine
for a moment that you utterly understand and appreciate that I
honestly and deeply believe that Iraq and the general never
ending "war on Terror" is a dreadful and deadly danger to all I
and we hold dear? Iraq is only a beginning, an early "domino",
but the attitudes behind this war must be faced and dealt with
as early as possible. To you really characterize this deep
caring and committment to what we claim to believe in as using
these pages merely "to spout slogans"?!
This is utterly reprehensible.
- samantha
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