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Jun. 4th, 2007 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnomiI just found out tonight that the husband of a former roommate of mine is being deployed soon to Iraq. He's in the Naval Reserve, he's married, and he's got twin girls who are a little less than a year and a half old. And... I don't know. I'm just faced with this overwhelming feeling of wrongness.
There are many, many reasons I don't get political here. And this is not a political reaction on my part. This has nothing to do with the overarching issues of the war, the reasons we're in Iraq, any of that. It's just this feeling, this ache I have for his wife, a woman I've known since I was a freshman in college, the woman who was responsible (with her then-not-boyfriend, now-husband) for me meetingmabfan.
And he'll go, because he's a man of honor, a man of duty. He enlisted after September 11th, knowing a day may come that he'd have to go.
And all I can wish him is tzaitchem b'shalom go in peace -- u'voachem l'shalom -- and return in peace.
and I know this is confused and disjointed. And for that I apologize.
There are many, many reasons I don't get political here. And this is not a political reaction on my part. This has nothing to do with the overarching issues of the war, the reasons we're in Iraq, any of that. It's just this feeling, this ache I have for his wife, a woman I've known since I was a freshman in college, the woman who was responsible (with her then-not-boyfriend, now-husband) for me meeting
mabfan.And he'll go, because he's a man of honor, a man of duty. He enlisted after September 11th, knowing a day may come that he'd have to go.
And all I can wish him is tzaitchem b'shalom go in peace -- u'voachem l'shalom -- and return in peace.
and I know this is confused and disjointed. And for that I apologize.
