� | |
i will go home tonight & leave the TV off. wait until after my son goes to bed before i watch the news. he is only four & our country has gone to war twice since he was born. i spent the days after 9/11 watching him try to wrap his new mind around planes flying into buildings. i don�t want to have to try to explain tanks & bombers to him. it is my hope that his will be the generation that moves beyond war. i don�t want him �entertained� by real conflicts, i want him to be old enough to understand that this is real & to be repulsed by the idea of killing, even when it is �justified�. i want him to be old enough to understand that killing is never �justified�, just sometimes easer to forgive. i don�t want him to become numb to this. without caring & compassion, we are lost. speaking of my son, he just showed up at work so i have to go. |