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I used to think you were REALLY OLD when you hit 70. I don't feel any older now, but I'm a lot slower on my bicycle and I take a couple pills every day to keep the numbers in the right range.
I'm getting more and more convinced that youth is an attitude rather than an age. If you have a lot of fun living and keep active mentally and physically, then you are young. If you're not having fun living, it's time to change a few things.
Life is full of opportunities for happiness. Never let one go by without some serious thought. Carpe diem quam maximum credula postero!
Not much has changed since graduation. I'm still anti-war, now officially a Quaker, and there have been a few more wars in the intervening years to be anti- about. I'm proud of becoming a draft counselor in 1967 and I see my years in environmental protection as an "alternate service."
Vietnam was a huge mistake. A whole lot of people got killed and injured to accomplish absolutely nothing - not even a learning experience judging from the most recent events.
Bush I - Iraq I was a war, (therefore not a good thing,) but at least there was a clear objective and a clear end point and a request for assistance.
Then there was the Bush II war. I was inside Government (EPA) at the time with a small glimmer of inside information on things nuclear. Afghanistan was invaded by Russia possibly for the rare earth deposits in the northeast of the country. They got themselves kicked out, which should have told us something.
Fast forward to September 11, 2001. Yes, there should have been some legitimate criminal justice for the World trade Center and the Cole and the embassy bombings, but it was not the Afghan people who did it. This was a criminal act by a relatively small group, not an act of war by a whole country. Somehow that fact got lost when they were allowed to slip away due to the war that shouldn't have been going on in the first place.
Then Bush II / Cheyney invaded an un-involved country based on a pure fabrication. Iraq was nowhere near any nuclear capability. There was clear intelligence on that. There was no connection to the WTC bombing. Thousands of Americans and tens of thousands the people of of Iraq died based on a lie. Of course nothing was done about it, and the war goes on with no end in sight. There is no easy way out of this one except to declare victory and go home. I wonder what historians will say in 50 or 100 years.
What if they fought a war and nobody came?