Care boxes? More care boxes? Do they think care boxes are supporting the troops? Take it back. I don't want it. Don't just take it back, send it back. I don't want their pity. I don't want their support if that is what they call it. I don't want them to be able to get off thinking that they are now justified in continuing to live most apathetically under the freedoms that I supposedly am fighting for.
Instead of filling care boxes they should be filling ballot boxes. Instead of sending care in boxes they should be sending letters to their congressmen's mailboxes.
Care boxes are indicative of the careless. Another band aid that isn't aid. Treating a symptom. So take it back, send it back.
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primortia over 13 years ago
Love it. You've packed some complex ideas into this snippet. The politics of war are hideously complex but you've humanised the cost well.
primortia over 13 years ago
Love it. You've packed some complex ideas into this snippet. The politics of war are hideously complex but you've humanised the cost well.
Galen over 13 years ago
Amazing. Do you think the general feeling of members of the armed forces reflects the narrator's sentiment?
someoneelse over 13 years ago
No. The unthinking are unfeeling. I can guarantee it is the feeling of at least one member. But, I had to be prodded into this position myself.
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