2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My confession....I was once Hillary or Bust... [View all]Loki
(3,825 posts)When you look deeper into that apology and the reasons she voted as she did, you find that the promises made by then President Bush were never kept. So what do you do when your decision was made upon a lie and a broken promise, you apologize. Forgiveness is one of the first steps toward healing, and before any one jumps down my throat, my father served in WWII in a sub in the Pacific theater for 3 1/2 years, where casualty rates were as high as 23%, and my family's service goes back to the Revolutionary War. I saw what PTSD does (not known at the time my Dad came back) and I unknowingly watched my father's reactions to fireworks or loud noises and really not understanding why he could never spend the 4th of July with us when it came time to celebrate. But anger and hatred only festers and wounds never heal. If I had only known what I know today, I could have helped my Dad move through that and find peace. If you blame anyone, blame all of us who stood silently by and allowed that to happen, because, and I use the universal "We" was almost all of the people in the US at that time after 9/11. I wasn't one of them, very few of us were, but we all shoulder the blame because we remained mostly silent and allowed that war to take place for all the wrong, ugly reasons. I hope you find peace Victor.