It is not often that I am lost for words, but tonight as I sit here I am perseverating about a BBC article on the sound of war. We, here in the United States have had plenty of disasters of weather, crime, and many unpleasant things but we have not had the experience that is currently in the Middle East.
Some of us who were old enough to have lived through WW2 in the comparative comfort afforded us by virtue of being in the USA before too much damage could be done to us directly. Those born after the war have lived it only through film. I wan 1973, just off a plane with my family in the Athens airport, when Palestinian gorillas were tossing hand grenades into the crowd (which we happened to be). Having heard only three grenades go off and some automatic weapons, the experience as similar to an atom as compared to that which Europeans and those in the UK, especially London, lived through. There are some sounds that never leave your head or trigger panic even if heard in a movie or the TV in another room.
To be happy to be living in the United States and to experience compassion for all those who suffer the violence currently in the Middle East, click here.
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Some of us who were old enough to have lived through WW2 in the comparative comfort afforded us by virtue of being in the USA before too much damage could be done to us directly. Those born after the war have lived it only through film. I wan 1973, just off a plane with my family in the Athens airport, when Palestinian gorillas were tossing hand grenades into the crowd (which we happened to be). Having heard only three grenades go off and some automatic weapons, the experience as similar to an atom as compared to that which Europeans and those in the UK, especially London, lived through. There are some sounds that never leave your head or trigger panic even if heard in a movie or the TV in another room.
To be happy to be living in the United States and to experience compassion for all those who suffer the violence currently in the Middle East, click here.
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2 comments:
The U.S. is contributing to the sound of war, striking civilian areas in countries where there is no official declaration of war. See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk86cs6j_pQ
Of course you would find the 'other side' of things. I don't defend that drones are preferable to hand to hand combat and that they make some errors. Violence fighting violence is unfortunately something we live with until someone finds a better way.
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