Today

I will respond to everyone on the last post this weekend, but today my favorite cousin arrives in Baghdad for his second tour in a war we do not understand and were coerced into fighting. I know that many of you are tired of hearing about this war from me, but I don't care. I have watched the number at the bottom of my posts rise daily over the past 5 years. I have lost friends. People close to me have been badly wounded. It is easy for you to pretend that nothing's happening because you are not effected daily. This war is not your life. It is something that's happening far, far away to people you don't know and certainly don't give a damn about. I understand that. I disagree with it. It infuriates me. But I also know that it is a simple case of "out of sight, out of mind". I don't know how to make you "see", and I consider that one of my greatest failures.

But none of that matters today. Today my baby cousin is being dropped into the "green" zone. All I ask is that he make it out unharmed.