Comments | jamesla: I don't understand

jamesla

I don't understand

Nov 08, 2005 12:00

I have a math class in which the professor has this quirky little rule that if your cell phone goes off, you have to tell a story for the class. For a second or third offense, you have to sing and act something out ( Read more... )

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anjala November 8 2005, 20:26:41 UTC

I understand. I can't say that I know what you went through overseas, but I know that it had to have been hard as hell. I won't ask you to go into it now, either. Please just know that I agree with you that what your friend did is wrong.

2 of my uncles were in Vietnam and I know better than to ask them what happened while they were there. One of my uncles has told us some of what happened, but my other uncle will not even talk about it.

Just know that you are in my prayers.

Anjala

jamesla November 9 2005, 05:21:02 UTC

thanks you :)

selabela99 November 8 2005, 20:27:17 UTC

I don't know that its a facination so much as its an unknown reality that most people will never ever experience. Its history, living history. For you it may just be doing your job and there are stories to tell that are difficult to hear and Im sure were even more difficult to live ( ... )

jamesla November 9 2005, 05:24:08 UTC

It's not my job to illuminate people about living history and help them recognize what was lost there.

If they value life, wait, if they value their OWN life then they don't need to know anymore than that. Lives are being lost for a very vague reason and that's a huge statement when recognized for what it is.

I appreciate you never asking me about it, funnily enough it's the people that don't ask that I open up to the most.

cringer November 8 2005, 20:36:00 UTC

I'm sure I'm this is not going to make nearly as much sense as it does in my head, but here goes ( ... )

thd3 November 8 2005, 20:55:47 UTC

Sadly, some people think the painful episodes of our lives are only to be served up for their entertainment.

Lindsay probably had no notion of the gravity of what she was asking.

jamesla November 9 2005, 05:24:34 UTC

and that's the only way I can understand why she did that, she didn't know.

billee91 November 8 2005, 21:10:57 UTC

While I agree that it's no one's business what went on with you in iraq. You gotta understand that maybe some people aren't asking for entertainment but to better understand the effects, losses, waste of life, insensitivity, disgrace, political, social, or economic out come of it all over there AND here (here does not compare to there, i know). I would never ask any soldier what they went through over "there" no matter how much I want to know.

Also, with how many lies our government and media are feeding us. It's natural to want to seek out information from better more reliable sources. I read up on those things so as not to impose on someone like you. But people aren't always that tactful...

I'm sorry you have to deal with that though james...really, i am.

jamesla November 9 2005, 05:26:04 UTC

if they need help to understand, then they really have no idea how valuable life is. More accurately, people who don't realize how special their OWN life is, need help understanding the gravity of the loss.