send some love

why is it that protest work has such little resonance with people? i mean, you look at the work of leon golub, his wife nancy spero, lee bonticou, ed keinholz, and this is really powerful stuff that has such a political and socially challenging viewpoint and what relevance does it have for us today? it means everything, but no one wants to pay any attention to the wars in iraq and afghanistan, it's a shameful state of affairs, especially when you consider that obama wants to escalate the war in afghanistan. my wife and i went through such a terrible ordeal in our lives with her two deployments, yet our friend who lived in chicago, who made such a vocal fact of her participation in all those iraq war protests, showed us zero support when my wife was deployed in iraq. i dont understand it. i dont understand how people have grown so callous and forgetful. these things that were set in motion eight years ago continue to move in their path. the defense department has already been reconfiguring all those deployment schedules of all those army and marine brigades who had been scheduled to go to iraq. there are soldiers that you can lend a hand to, reach out, lend your support to.
www.uso.org
my family and i are no longer connected to the military, but we still know and support those people over in iraq and afghanistan. you should too.