and breaking my heart in the process. basically the situation is, we’ve been on and off and currently live in different states, and now he’s made the decision to join up to pay for school. he’s convinced he won’t be shipped anywhere that would involve him in the war, whereas other people are telling me [...]

Everywhere you turn in the news today, and yesterday, and the day before – there’s the United States, much as it was last year before and during the invasion of a sovereign nation we know as Iraq. A dictator was toppled, which is good. Dictators are poor fare in a world where we regard ourselves [...]