I don't normally wade into anything remotely politically charged, but I have some compelling reasons to link to an article on the Washington Post web site that hit this morning. Yes, I did add a comment to it as well - I'm going to leave this blog as that simple and let you guys read the article for yourselves, but it's an interesting take from 10 brave men and 2 brave women (twelve real life Captains) who served in Iraq and saw things first hand:
12 former army captains write about "The Real Iraq War We Knew":
I don't normally wade into anything remotely politically charged, but I have some compelling reasons to link to an article on the Washington Post web site that hit this morning. Yes, I did add a comment to it as well - I'm going to leave this blog as that simple and let you guys read the article for yourselves, but it's an interesting take from 10 brave men and 2 brave women (twelve real life Captains) who served in Iraq and saw things first hand:
12 former army captains write about "The Real Iraq War We Knew":
Sometimes, people create URLs that can be misconstrued. I mean, you're taking a bunch of words and mashing them together - since URLs are not case sensitive (up to a certain degree - leave me alone, geeks), best intentions sometimes get a little miscued when capitalizing different letters. For example:
Sometimes, people create URLs that can be misconstrued. I mean, you're taking a bunch of words and mashing them together - since URLs are not case sensitive (up to a certain degree - leave me alone, geeks), best intentions sometimes get a little miscued when capitalizing different letters. For example:
This morning, I woke up at 5am - my alarm is not set for that time, I just woke up - and my brain was on, which honestly is an extraordinarily frequent occurance (curses!). Anyway, I have no real control over strange thought processes in the wee hours of the morning, apparantly, because today, my brain flitted over the idea of discovery - man discovering things about the world whether it be a cure for a disease, or a new sea creature, or how to build a piece of electronics. I thought about how we celebrate those people and "achievements".
This morning, I woke up at 5am - my alarm is not set for that time, I just woke up - and my brain was on, which honestly is an extraordinarily frequent occurance (curses!). Anyway, I have no real control over strange thought processes in the wee hours of the morning, apparantly, because today, my brain flitted over the idea of discovery - man discovering things about the world whether it be a cure for a disease, or a new sea creature, or how to build a piece of electronics. I thought about how we celebrate those people and "achievements".
I'm incredibly analytical, intelligent and logical. Except when I'm not. The emotions, or my "heart" (although, cognitively, I know that all of my thoughts come from electrical impulses in my brain and not out of my heart which merely pumps blood and also looks cool being ripped out of chests in horror movies) definitely creep up and smack the crap out of logic unexpectedly and more often than I'd wish.
I'm incredibly analytical, intelligent and logical. Except when I'm not. The emotions, or my "heart" (although, cognitively, I know that all of my thoughts come from electrical impulses in my brain and not out of my heart which merely pumps blood and also looks cool being ripped out of chests in horror movies) definitely creep up and smack the crap out of logic unexpectedly and more often than I'd wish.
