This War
Two days ago at work I was talking to one of my bosses about the people that he knows who are currently or who have fought in Iraq. He knows several. He is seven years older than I am. Most of the people the he knows in the military are almost done with their tours. He is twenty-five years old.
I am eighteen years old. I know many people that are planning to join the military and many that already have. All of these people will most likely be shipped to Iraq.
It is difficult for me to write how wierd and scary it is to think that people who are seven years older than I am started fighting this war and people my own age will soon be carrying on the fight. Why are we still fighting? Why can we not get out of this war?
It may not be a new generation but it seems close, at least to me. This war has been going on far too long and it had better end soon, before people seven years younger than those me have to fight the war too.
From the brilliant mind of Mike Kean, your friendly Sergeant at Arms.
