I was supposed to go into school tonight to work with the other guys from class on our assignments, but I'm not going to drive in this stuff, particularly after it gets dark and everything freezes up. Of course this means I need to find a way to get the kids and dogs to give me a few hours of quiet so I can get some work done.
OK, I need to go throw a couple snowballs at the kids...
Yep, it's that time of year again. The time of year when the radio starts playing seasonal songs and I hear the song that brings me to tears every time, Belleau Wood by Garth Brooks.
Those of you who have been reading my diary for a while will already have read this stuff that I write every year about the Christmas Truce of 1914. For those who are unfamiliar with it, here is a good in a nutshell accounting of what happened, as well as the lyrics to the song:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/printer_122604A.shtml
Is it naive of me to wish that something like this could happen now, 91 years later? I suppose it might happen if the theological and philosophical differences between those that we are at war with now were not so extremely vast. I don't even know if it is the type of concept that the extremists we are at war with could conceive of.
Of course, they probably believe the same of us. After all, how could Godless Infidels be trusted to honor a moment of peace? OK, OK, this is a hollywood reaction to what we envision their point of view to be. I don't think it is far from the mark though. While I wish for it, I don't believe we are at a time, or at a war with someone we could hope for something like the Christmas Truce to happen.
I find it ironic how they consider us Godless when there are so many people in the US militaries that do follow any of many belief's. Of course, since many of them are not Islamic belif's, we must then be Godless I suppose.
I just can't fathom a culture who strives for oppression, even in the name of God. Admittedly I am American through and through, and I deeply value the freedoms we have here. As a woman I can go to school, get a job, drive a car, voice my opinion and wear whatever the hell I want to. I don't have to cover my head unless it is cold enough for me to grab a hat before leaving the house. I do not have to accept the word and directives of my husband or father as law.
I like it that way, and will support anyone who works to help me keep these freedoms. If the folks who oppose this war are under the delusions that if we just pack up and come home we will be left alone, boy do they have another thing coming!