Two Stories of GI Resistance

SunshineBurn

Wow, this topic got just a little off base...

I started it with the intention of creating support for soldiers, regardless of their political affiliation, they served our country and deserve at least a small piece of respect for that much. Even if they weren't soldiers, as human beings they have at least the right to speak their minds.

Secondly, I have no intention of getting into a pissing contest about the righteousness of any current occupations we face. As a former infantryman, I wholeheartedly support my military brothers and sisters but cannot support occupation under current circumstances. My objection has nothing to do with politics, I feel (yes it is an opinion, not a fact) that we human beings are a single connected family and that to kill another human trying to protect his homeland from foreign invasion is to destroy a part of myself. When I look into the eyes of an Iraqi, all I see are my own eyes staring back at me.

So argue on about oil, money, weapons contracts, and "evil" dictators but at the end of the day you can look inside your heart and feel the real truth...

We are One interconnected organism.
...and we must learn to stop fighting with ourselves.

badbrains

Dnt fuck with Byrnzie on anything factual....that dude knows his shit and btw, I pay $3 fucken dollars a gallon cuz of this bull shit war and secondly my cuz died there fighting for our so called freedoms so I dnt have military experience but my family has shed blood there.

gimmesometruth27

SunshineBurn wrote:

Wow, this topic got just a little off base...

I started it with the intention of creating support for soldiers, regardless of their political affiliation, they served our country and deserve at least a small piece of respect for that much. Even if they weren't soldiers, as human beings they have at least the right to speak their minds.

Secondly, I have no intention of getting into a pissing contest about the righteousness of any current occupations we face. As a former infantryman, I wholeheartedly support my military brothers and sisters but cannot support occupation under current circumstances. My objection has nothing to do with politics, I feel (yes it is an opinion, not a fact) that we human beings are a single connected family and that to kill another human trying to protect his homeland from foreign invasion is to destroy a part of myself. When I look into the eyes of an Iraqi, all I see are my own eyes staring back at me.

So argue on about oil, money, weapons contracts, and "evil" dictators but at the end of the day you can look inside your heart and feel the real truth...

We are One interconnected organism.
...and we must learn to stop fighting with ourselves.

very nice post. i feel the same way and agree with all of your points in this post. our occupation is criminal, and we are one and we need to stop fighting and maiming and killing ourselves. after reading some of the opinions expressed around here i wonder if you and i are the weirdos and not everyone else...have a good evening.

SunshineBurn

Oh yes, I do not doubt my weirdoness...

How does that line go?

'follow the strangest tribe'

...i think that was it.



Much Love.