Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Another Life Taken Thanks to Bush's War
I'm numb. I don't know if I should be outraged and seek to throw something at someone so they can feel this sudden pain or if I should just stand still and shed my tears.
I thought it unusal for my parents to come home a little earlier than normal from Bible study. When they came through the door, that when I was hit with the terrible news. The kind of news no one, especially parents of children in "Bush's War" wants to hear.
A young lady by the name of Emily Perez, a member and daughter of our church had been killed this week in the latest wave of violence in Iraq. I stood on the steps in shock and unable to move. I repeatedly kept asking "she was killed over there?" I was in disbelief. My mother kept confirming it for me. I eventually sat on the steps and cried a bit.
I remember Emily when she first arrived to our church. It was during the wave of change when we had just installed a new pastor and first family. The Perez's, Emily's parents, have been long time friends of our pastor and came to our church to follow pursuit in worship and to serve as associate pastors. Emily was beautiful. I always thought she was and I always believed that she would grow up to be nothing but an intelligent beautiful lady. She was high school age when she first arrived and though I didn't take the chance to know her more personally, I remember just watching her grew up gracefully.
She was very spiritual, with a bright smile that light up any room. I was a bit stunned when I found out that after high school she wanted to attend West Point, especially in this day in age under the Bush Administration. Yet, many believed it was because she wanted to follow her father's - who was also a military man - footsteps in a way. If I remember correctly her father and my pastor were together in the military for a few years in Germany. That's how their families became close.
Emily made it through West Point and before I knew it, I was hearing news that she was going to Iraq. I don't know if I should disclose any info on her job duties there, but just to say when my father found out about it, he knew right away that she would be in a dangerous position.
It was just last November when, she shipped off. Unfortunately, because my own attendance in church hasn't been so great, I can't remember when was the last time I had seen her, but anytime she was seen in church I always heard about it through my mother. Emily had just been home a month ago on the two week pass and now, without warning, she is gone.
What's erie, it was just Monday I was looking at an archived article from the Washington Post of all of the reported casualities of the Iraq War. I scare myself sometimes, because when I do something that erie and don't know why, it's always revealed to me a short time later. For some reason when I was skimming through those names (by the way it was a list from last Dec) I was looking to see if by chance I knew anyone on it. Soon after I went back to the front wepage of the post and read a small headline pertaining to the brutal fighting that has been taking place over there this week.
I'm hurting for the Perez family. Emily was their only child. I'm hurting, because this war is just as senseless as any regual street violence. Why the fuck are we there????? Who are these dumb folks that put Bush and all of his "men" (including Condi) back in office? I'm certainly not one of them!!! Who has time for this sort of shit where a President wants to play Cowboys and Indians with the foreign nations? Certainly not I!!!!!
I can't make sense of any of this now. All I know is, I'm exhaulsted for those that our fighting for "our defense." Though I hate to use the term babies, because essentially they are adults, but when you look at the ages of those being killed... 18... 19... 20.. 21....22... 23... life hasn't fully begun for them.
Emily was just 21. Because of the love I have witnessed within her and her parents, the love they have for each other and the love for God, my soul feels easy to know that she is okay for the most part, but the part of me that is aware of what is going on, it's restless and it hurts.
It's times like these when I wish I was some kind of Superwoman and could do something and much more to ease the pain of the family.
My mother told me that everyone in Bible study was so distraught, all they could do was outline the lesson plan for the season and go home for the night. The news just hit everyone today. Her parents were notified at 6:30 this morning. Emily will surely be missed.
Rest in peace - Beautiful one.
This really hurts.
Posted by KomplexPhemale ::
9:13 PM ::
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