Raising Your Child to be a Soldier

Soldier son's email to his mom:

"I was gonna call you but the phone is broken. I hate this place more than anywhere else i've been. I guess is a compilation of all the time I've done overseas fighting. Bullshit fights, its really bringing me down. I can't wait till all this is over…I'll be the biggest anti-war person this country will have… at least against this war in Iraq....Let's go fight a different one somewhere else cause this one is lost. I swear i wish you could spend a week over here…you would know it's lost. You can't stop ‘holy warriors,' especially in their territory. Tonight we are about to go drop off generators to the enemy (Iraqi civilians) hoping they will give us info about the enemy (bullshit storys). The shit your tax dollars go to would make you puke. You really would puke. I almost do when i think about it..... thomas jefferson would have a heart attack if he saw all the shit goin on today. Oh well. I really hope it changes soon when Bush is out…but i doubt it. I thinks its all Gods plan…he runs the show no matter what. Fate and all that…its good to trust him.
"…I'll keep the machine gun lubed in hopes of killin em all at the first opportunity for you. I love you ma and i know that no matter what you support me. I hope you don't find this email burdensome. Just hit delete if that's the case."

This young man's mother will lay in her bed tonight wondering how she raised a blood thirsty killer. She taught him to be patriotic, to believe in God, to fight for freedom. Our school system, our pop culture, a church and our media all did their work on him. A good boy who believed what they told him, who wanted to do the right thing. Bush, God , Fate, Thomas Jefferson. If he lives through this he will become someones employee or boss, a voter, a worshipper or drug addict, a husband and father, a mental patient or politician. If he doesn't they will bury him in a flag draped coffin and give his mom the medals to put by his picture on her mantle. His name will go on a new Wall somewhere in D.C. We will all go on eating ,sleeping and shitting, blogging and buying. And the viscious cycle will continue.