I was thinking about the kids, too

Post #267,347 by drewk 9/12/06 2:37:28 PM Reply	I was thinking about the kids, too We were at the library over the weekend and my 6-year-old asked why there were all the tiny flags planted out front. I told her I didn't know. (I wasn't thinking about the date.) When I heard on the radio yesterday that some state government offices were doing that, I realized what it was. Then I realized that I couldn't have explained to my daughter what it was about anyway. It happened before she was aware. I was born in '68, so I was seven when we left Vietnam. But I have no first-hand memories of seeing or hearing anything about it. If I'm typical, there are 12-year-olds walking around today for whom 9/11 is as much a historical incident as Vietnam is for me. This means that if we're still in Iraq through the next administration, we'll be sending kids over there who literally don't remember the event that eventually lead to their trip to Baghdad. We will have been at war their entire lives, as far as they're concerned. They'll have grown up knowing that Muslims are our enemies. Yay for their generation. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #267,358 by Ashton 9/12/06 4:22:09 PM Reply	'We have always been at war with East Asia..' ..which phrase gets 226 [link\|http://handthatfeedsme.blogspot.com/2005/09/we-have-always-been-at-war-with-east.html\| hits]. My condolences go out to every rational person, responsible for somehow ... training-up a replacement.. during the Murder of Language purge years.
Post #267,360 by drewk 9/12/06 4:29:01 PM Reply	You knew that was an Orwell quote? Or you just happened to hit the same phrase? === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #267,363 by Ashton 9/12/06 4:38:52 PM Reply	I've been reading a fine bio of George O A few fascinating chapters at a time, over months. (A pres from a bibliophile friend..) But I'd imagine that any reading of 1984 or the rather-OK movie, would 'create permanent memory' for that phrase (?)
Post #267,365 by drewk 9/12/06 4:41:45 PM Reply	Depressing how often he's still relevant === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #267,379 by Ashton 9/12/06 5:42:50 PM Reply	Re: Depressing how often he's ^h^h the Greeks and most 'old ie mature' cultures have eons-ago taken the measure of what does Not constitute a civilization (..always so much harder to complete any list of what Does, I wot.) An iggerant populace guarantees that we always need a Twain, Mencken, Vonnegut around to reSHOUT this stuff. I thought that ST (Trek) covered that one well, with the skit of the elders-in-togas preventing YAN testosterone shoot-out / planetary invasion - you remember, the one wherein the Klingon, after accepting that the fun was off for today, squealed, It would have been a G l o r i o u s (little?) war!! Before Light! as in ..Let there Be __, -was- cha cha cha :-/
Post #267,382 by jb4 9/12/06 6:47:37 PM 9/12/06 6:47:59 PM Reply	I knew... ...and I was going to post it...but Ash (as usual) beat me to it. jb4 "So don't pay attention to the approval ratings that say 68% of Americans disapprove of the job this man is doing. I ask you this, does that not also logically mean that 68% approve of the job he's not doing? Think about it. I haven't." — Stephen Colbert, at the White House Correspondent's Dinner 29Apr06 Edited by jb4 Sept. 12, 2006, 06:47:59 PM EDT Expand All History

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