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Today we heard the beginnings of some whispers that some locally stationed troops have been recently killed. There is no word on who, where, or how many because the word takes a few days to reach the news and the parents. Members of the 3rd Infantry Mechanized have been shipping out of here on a regular basis and the latest buzz is that the tours might be extended beyond the 15 month mark to possibly 18 sometime after Christmas.
Every day that we wait, that we talk, that we sit, another troop dies and another family is crushed. More than 3400 families have been crushed because of our illegitmate regime to date.
I have been reading Thoreau's On The Duty of Civil Disobedience again and it's gonna get me in trouble. When I sit here and allow the government to do whatever it does, I am silently giving my approval for this war and everything that they do. I am finding it harder and harder to sit here day after day and watch what this government does and continue to support it with my taxes that buy the bullets and the bombs that kill and with my silence that gives it time to kill and conduct an immoral occupation. I shake in anger and in tears and I am coming closer and closer to acting on my fantasies of withdrawing my support for this country by either taking myself out of this country or doing something more severe that would surely get my face on CNN. I am not threatening violence, far from it. I can accomplish no goal through violence. I do see however how the monks who set themself on fire are able to remain perfectly still as they committ the ultimate protest.
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