Katie Couric talks with Nick Notle about his new movie.
Words of death and destruction scroll across
the bottom of the screen.
My infant son, five days old, sleeps in my arms.
An Iraqi division is destroyed. The stock market grows.
People here go to work and school.
Fires burn across the desert as buildings burst
from high explosive ordinance.
The sky is clear here in Alaska.
Smiling reporters camp out with soldiers and
point to the plumes of burning towns.
The NBC Book Club recommends a novel.
The stock market grows.
God turns her head and cries.
Satan looks serious and tells us things are going well
Satan looks serious and tells us things are going well
as he wraps himself in flag and Bible.
Reporters extol of the marvels of military technology.
A maternity hospital has just been bombed.
and my infant son sleeps in my arms.
April 2, 2003
and my infant son sleeps in my arms.
April 2, 2003
Sigh...I son served in Iraq. Two tours. Suffers from TBI and PTSD. Hard to believe this is still going on after all these years.
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