20 Years

[highwing]

Has it really been twenty years? The calendar says yes, so who am I to argue?

I'm not sure what Josh would have made of the current state of our world, two decades on. I remember him writing in support of our invasion of Iraq in 2003 - a detail I alluded to in my tribute novel "The Waiting Room" - on the grounds that the Iraqi people had suffered

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[zianchoy]

>in support of our invasion of Iraq in 2003

I remember talking about al-Qaeda with a close friend in middle school. I remember trying to use them as an exaggerated boogeyman exactly one time before I realized that there was no reasonable way for them to do much worse than what they had already done. And that I shouldn't be afraid of them.

Later, the summer before 10th grade started, I attended two World History classes at a community college located in the same city as a major military installation. During one of the classes, at least one woman spoke loudly about how her pain/suffering/having-signed-up had to be worth something. That she hadn't signed up to do something effectively meaningless. I believe that this is roughly around the time of the Iraq war.

The summer before 12th grade, while taking PLSC 102: American Institutions and History at the community college, I remember saying that I was very slightly in favor of it only because of a Senate report that I was vaguely aware of.

Now, I am not sure if things are truly better for