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war sucks!
2003-04-07 - 10:42 p.m.
- my eyes hurt. i am a big weepy mess.
let me tell you.
monday being a barren wasteland if you don't have cable (which i don't) i turned to PBS. "American Experiance". well, shit. the story of a 34 yr old woman that was given up in the '75 baby airlift out of Vietnam. she was adopted by a single mother here in the US. she lived a good life and now has a husband and two lovely daughters. the story is about her return to Vietnam to find her birth mother. she had only vague memories of her. (she was 7 when she left) her father was an American soldier and she really doesn't look like she is anything but 100% american. growing up, living in tennesee, she was told never to talk about where she came from. her soph yr in college, her adoptive mom kicked her out of the house and basically disowned her. so she searched the internet for information about her birth mother. luck was with her and she found her and planned a trip to meet her. very nervous, she made the trip and planned to spend 7 days in danag (i am sure i misspelled that!) anyway, everything was cool at first. she felt an immidiate closeness to her birth other and her enormous extended family. but then....the day before she was to leave, her older brother started asking for money. it seems that is what is done in vietnam. of course, it threw her. it would me. she was torn between wanting to help and horror at how the men of the family were telling her it was her duty to provide for her mother and her sister. it was awful. not only is it impossible for me to imagine the horror of that war (her mother was to that her daughter, since she was half american, would be taken from her, doused in gas and burned - that's why she sent her away. all this becuase her husband had run off to join the commies and left her with 4 children to care for. he didn't even tell her he was going. so she started working on an army base. you can guess the rest) anyway, her whole experience with her new found family was ruined. she literally ran home to the family that raised her. to her husband and babies. it just felt so horrible for her. and i know there are thousands like her. children that had no say in what was done to them.
and now i can't help but think of what is going on over in iraq.
war sucks.
being a woman sucks too.
sometimes.
but being the resilliant woman that i am, i am going to watch freddie prinze jr on leno and cross my fingers that he tells a good doodie story to cheer me up.
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