That wraps up Saturday night!When I start posting, I never really know which direction I will take. That's the beauty of a blog as far as I am concerned - it has the inbuilt option to free-form.
I hadn't intended posting so much about Katrina, but when you have email alerts constantly drawing your attention to details that are often missed by the major media concerns, it is hard to ignore.
It is the same with the deaths of U.S troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is no secret that I am against the Iraq war, which of course in the eyes of many who fail to see that you don't have to be anti-this or anti-that - just anti-bullshit, automatically makes me anti-American, anti-Republican, peacenik, pinko, wet liberal and a dumb arsed Aussie whose hides were rescued in two wars.
Yet I see more than they.
As I have mentioned before, I have a host of keyword alerts and one such set-up includes variations on the word "dead."
Not only do I get reports via the major media outlets when Coalition soldiers are killed in Iraq, (or die while receiving treatment elsewhere) but also from their local newspaper.
I can not say I have read all the reports, but I have read a great many. Young men and women who are more than just names on a web page or newspaper.
I read about the school they went to, which church they attended, the pranks they used to play. The dreams that will never come through.
I still have all those emails. Although I never go back and read them, I have them on a CD. At first I had intended to delete them - discard them to the recycle bin and then click - gone forever.
But it didn't seem right somehow. A life story deleted by a click here and there.
And I had this awful, gnawing feeling, that someone has already done that - discarded those who died doing what they themselves never attempted to do. OK Right wingers - labels? - bring them on!
Wherever you may be - be safe!
Photo: My local Westfield Shopping Centre - the enlarged verson is better:)
