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July 14, 2005
Bastille Day 4th of July greeting
by Sylvia S Tognetti
As you may have noticed, I haven't gotten the knack of knocking out blog posts on a daily basis - there are a few in the pipeline, coming soon of course. In the meantime, I am passing along a 4th of July greeting from a friend who also happens to be a marine corps lawyer now serving in Iraq - which I did not post on the 4th because I wanted to make sure he didn't mind it being posted to a public forum. While we don't always agree on everything, we agree that the ability to have disagreements, and be civilized about it, is what America and the 4th, are all about.
It seems more and more time is slipping by. More importantly, HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!! Being out here has provided me a deeper appreciation for what our forefathers went through in trying to ensure individual liberty. It took them 8 years to just get a constitution, which was rejected 4 years later, another 75 years before the sectarian differences b/n the North and South erupted into the Civil War, another 150 years before women achieved legal (if not real) equality, another 175 years for legal racial equality. It appears that individual liberty and democracy is a work in progress. I suppose I could imagine finishing the work in Iraq by Christmas or even in the next couple of years, but there is a no drug policy in the military, so I don?t see my imagination reaching that level. How many years will it take the Iraqi?s? Let?s hope they like us, never stop discovering the responsibilities of liberty and walking the path of freedom.
I hope that you are enjoying fireworks and the warm glow of shared idealism with your neighbors. I spent last Friday night having cigar and beers (NA of course) with colleagues on a rooftop watching the counter battery fires of nearby base, but fortunately, we have not had fireworks here at Camp TQ since last Wednesday, when we enjoyed a rocket?s red glare.
Alex, stay safe. And now, in honor of Bastille Day, and in defiance of my own I won't say which decadal anniversaire, I'm going to go blow out some roman candles. I'll probably get those posts up over the weekend.
Posted by Sylvia S Tognetti at July 14, 2005 8:28 PM
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