20100203-2040
Been reviewing my entries the last day or two. Not sure I’m totally excited about sharing these, even with the relatively small number of folks I told I would. This will be an interesting “experiment in truth” as Gandhi would say (though probably totally unrelated to ahimsa).
Lots of thoughts about the trip are still swimming through my head. Yeah, fluidity is a good word to use in relation to my mental state. Still haven’t talked to Greg [Barrett] or Sami [Rasouli], but I will. I have a short list of things I want to do as I move forward from this experience:
write the principal of the school
write the orphan and his brother
write a collective letter on behalf of other soldiers, expressing our regret and grief (or collect and send many) to Iraqis
really want to write that hagiography I’ve been thinking about (“Soldier Saints and Patriot Pacifists”)
really push for [Selective Conscientious Objection] and strengthening existing regulations on [the Uniform Code of Military Justice]
donate up to half my disability compensation to a good cause benefitting Iraq
never forget
It is almost like standing in a doorway with my hand on the knob (preparing to ‘publish’ these notes). Something so long in coming has somehow been consummated. And yet it is not yet complete. Like the eschatological hope Christians are called to; the simultaneous ‘now and not yet’ of the kingdom of God. Maybe I’m not called to close the door, but continue through the doorway...
