Serviceman/woman death is more frequent in the news here as their is the AFB here. So we hear about not only the natives who died, but the ones who had been assigned here.
And, so, for many people here, I think, unless they knew the person personally the dead person is just another number.
And maybe that's when wars get the most dangerous, when they aren't friends, family, co-workers who die; when it's just a number.
My sister's fiancee is possibly getting called up sometime this year. As he is a major in the AF in a maintenance unit I don't know that he would see any fighting, but he'd still be going over to a war zone where people will hate him for being American.
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Date: 2006-08-25 09:21 am (UTC)From:And, so, for many people here, I think, unless they knew the person personally the dead person is just another number.
And maybe that's when wars get the most dangerous, when they aren't friends, family, co-workers who die; when it's just a number.
My sister's fiancee is possibly getting called up sometime this year. As he is a major in the AF in a maintenance unit I don't know that he would see any fighting, but he'd still be going over to a war zone where people will hate him for being American.