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Daily Stuff

Sunny and mild today in Seattle. I rode the motorcycle to work…a bit chilly in early a.m. but what fun. It is only four months from now and I will be somewhere in the middle of America riding with several hundred motorcycles on the way to Washington, D.C. I've been intrigued with the idea for three years and I'm finally almost there. Still lots of motorcyle gear and clothing to buy for the trip.

My boss has given notice that he intends to retire as of April 6th. About time. He hasn't really paid much attention or cared for years, and has sat back while various pieces of his responsibilities were transferred to other departments. I've applied for that job and find the prospect of a new role to be stimulating all kinds of ideas about improving things, etc. The flame still burns…although it has been at very low ebb, particularly since our loss.

Maybe the idea of new horizons (both literally and metaphorically), plus the weather this week which hints of spring, is lifting me up. Pray, let it be so.

The War

What despair it creates for me. It such an exact parallel to the Vietnam experience and we are doing it again. With the added cruel irony that most responsible and eager for it all avoided service in Vietnam. Yossarian is smiling somewhere! My boy, with his tendency to worry and assume the worst ( I guess he was right about that) was worried about being drafted. Now we don't need to worry about that and I wish we did…..but, there are hundreds, thousands, of parents out there who are going to suffer the same loss we have. Right now they may be worried, even fearful, but they still have hope. No one who has not lost a child can know how devastating it is to have hope obliterated in a cruel moment when a person in a uniform steps onto your porch. Welcome to the jungle. Thank you, Axel, and thank you foley82 for introducing me to GNR. Those are our children out there people, being sent to die by jumped up fools who won't go themselves.