I went out to my friend BoPeep's house. Her husband is home from Iraq and I met him tonight. He's very funny and they're quite lovely together. They laugh a lot. That makes me happy.
He seems relatively unscathed. He's an electrician, so he doesn't have to shoot people, really. I think that helps. I read an article somewhere, maybe The New Yorker, about how being a soldier who has to shoot people is not dealt with at all in the military. Apparently there's no one to tell a soldier what to think or feel when he's done his job, even though the job is frustrating and gut wrenching and horrifying.
That's not what I wanted to talk about, though. Mostly I wanted to say that we had a lovely time playing games and drinking wine and telling stories and eating dinner. It was a really lovely time.
Posted by dotty at July 14, 2004 11:57 PM