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by wizerdrobe
1016 days ago
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The TV cart… That’s probably the memory for many (most?) grade schoolers, isn’t it? Was in a gifted and talented class that morning, we had the budget for a dedicated TV in the corner that stayed on all day with a global map showing the time and the position of sunlight moving over the globe. The administrators had a master controller that switched all the TVs in all the classrooms over to the news at the same time. Have little memory of the actual news but do remember having an old, stern southern lady (the kind that would paddle you if she still could) suddenly crying quietly as we watched the news that day. That and our similarly elderly main teacher setting time aside the day before the invasion of Iraq to talk about the seriousness of going to war and what it meant for families. How she remembers her town before Korea and Vietnam. With hindsight I wonder why Afghanistan just didn’t get talked about in the same seriousness as the invasion of Iraq. Afghanistan just kind of quietly happened, but the build up to Iraq just held more weight. |
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If you weren't for war you were violently shouted down as unamerican and undemocratic and unpatriotic. It's a simple as that. This applied to US senators just as much as it applied to average americans. "Our country is under attack and we are at war" was the hammer used to suppress any argument, especially the one talking about how Bush clearly wanted a war even before the attack.