Long Time Gone

It's been a while sense I have have blogged there have been many things pulling my attention. Most of them veterans related. I have been speaking to vet group and doing workshop of my own as well as educating my self at others. It has become more clear to me lately that what is missing in the healing equation for vets when the come home with PTSD or some other war related wound is that society has no idea how to deal with them. There is no issue in the all of mankind that is bigger than war. It boils right down to the fact that war is about life death and lots of pain and we are to small to be able to encompass such a huge frightening thing as war so we stick out small ostrich head with our ipod earplugs into the softest pile of sand we can find and hope when we pull it back up the vets will have gone away. Problem is that they don't, they are still there and infact the have begun to infect all of us with their pain. The missing peice is a way to see the war issue from a larger perspective then we have. In order to generate any hope in the conditions of war and the afteraffects of war we need to have a vantage point of the soul, higher self, or God view or we remain stuck in the trenches looking at each other with hate and rage and hoplessness. The chaplin has become a pivital role in the miliatary and their job is to get men stabalized so they can return to battle. What a job this has to be for consious men and woman to ask their fellow human beings to offer up their lives for causes that have become so complicated that no one seems to understand them.

Just a few thougth that have been stirring would love to have some feed back.

Larry

There are a number of new UTube's on my website

My Webmaster has really put a lot of hard work into getting some very interesting UTube shows on the website makingandunmaking.com. I'd love for you to check them out and to give comment. There are many valuable links and a good deal of important information on the site look at it carefully.

Be well

Larry

So You Support the Troops and Not the War

OK, let's think about this for a few minutes. You say you support the troops but not the war. Have I got that right? Great! I thought that's what you said. So let me just make sure I understand what that means; support the troops, that is.

I was once a troop during the Vietnam War, and I would have seen support as you showing up for me. You would have honored me when I was sent to war to risk my life to keep you safe. You would have followed the war as it progressed to see where I was and how I was doing. You would have written me letters and prayed for my safety. You would have welcomed me home when I got back. And you would have thanked me from the bottom of your heart for standing between you and the enemy.

You then would have asked me what I needed, and how was my health. You would have wanted to know what you could do to repay me for the effort that I put in to keep our country safe. Your primary interest would have been for my welfare. You would have wanted to comfort me from my battlefield fears; you would have asked if you could pay for my medical bills; you would have helped my family when I was gone; and, you would have told me that you honored me for my sacrifice. You would have asked me for forgiveness for not going yourself and you would have offered forgiveness for the killing I did in your name. That must be what you mean when you say you support the troops?

Hey where are you going we just started this conversation? Come on back I want to hear about why you don't support the war.

Larry Winters