Target-4 MILLION dead Americans

[justamom]

So much to say in response-I know this will jump around, but it wasn't the individual sentences of the article, it was the full understanding of the impact of the "thought".

James-Freedom is as much a state of mind as anything else, and when you start passing laws where every aspect of our lives are monitored on the off chance that it will protect us, it begin to erode the idea of freedom.

This IS so true, and is what really bothers me.

Personally-
edited here----->This is said with exception to Viet Nam which to me was the most horrible facet of MY history, yet, it was "Over there".
I know we've had threads on how things have changed through the decades, but there was a pretty wonderful span of time between the air raid drills of the 50's and the revelation/realization of AIDS in the post 60's-70's sexual revolution.

In my mind, this is so much worse. One has faded from memory, or in the case of our younger members, was never experienced. The other, basically unnamed till around 1983, (and not feared by the general population till later) can be controlled by individual choice decreasing the possibility to close to nil. (Still have those incidents with random, tainted transfusions or rape for example.)

It's a feeling of being powerless.

Like the serial killers-child abduction-killed by a drunk driver or an earthquake taking down a part of the San Francisco Bridge. We have come accustomed to THESE possibilities-maybe "numb" is a better word. Will we become "numb" to this new threat, to a new intrusion? How will we modify our lives and what effects will that modification have? (I do not know)

We have so many societal ills we are dealing with as a culture. Things that have already put constraints on our young ones.
When Kris Kristoffersen wrote-"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." Was it a truism beyond his original concept? I never dreamed this could become the reality of my children and their children. THAT is what makes me so very sad.