Tell It Like You Still Believe...

Ear Candy: "Amie" by Damien Rice

So today in Ms. Butler's class, and old student of hers came in to say goodbye. He graduated last year, had just turned 18, and had enlistend in the infantry of the Marine Corps. I had never met him before, and I was not even sure that I had seen him around school before... He looked vaguely familiar, but done up in his full out military gear, he looked less like a student and more like a stern-faced adult. His name was... something Chamberlin I think. Like I said, I didn't know him. But for some reason, seeing him there in his uniform, I just wanted to cry. He said that he was being shipped to the Fallujah-Bagdhad area, and that he would have one of the most dangerous jobs in his unit. The song "Amie" by Damien Rice was playing on my iPod while he was talking, and I just felt so sad for this boy. He was so young. And I know he is all brave and everything for going to "defend his country", but he is so young! He has his whole life ahead of him. And the thought of him never coming home absolutely broke my heart. I kept thinking, "that could be Galen... Or Pierpaolo..." And how much I love them both so much and that I couldn't bare to lose either of them. How much I didn't want to lose anymore people I care about. The guy got a sad look on his face when we said that none of us were enlisting, and all I could think running through my head when I saw his face was, "why?" And "When do you come home?" I have never met him, but in the five minutes he was in my life, I felt so sad at the thought of him going to war. I have no idea why.

If you are reading this, I love you.

Love, E