tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5835778370448164083.post828519576626092187..comments2023-07-05T03:36:25.498-04:00Comments on Wingnuts and Moonbats: I am War.repsac3http://www.blogger.com/profile/15458282944035344707noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5835778370448164083.post-81181299238609926792007-09-19T16:08:00.000-04:002007-09-19T16:08:00.000-04:00Repsac3, this comment may be off-thread and I hope...Repsac3, this comment may be off-thread and I hope you will forgive my leaving it here. There was no other place I could think of leaving it.<BR/>- - - <BR/>The last time I checked <B>Baghdad Burning</B> was in April 2007 when the bloggist and her family were preparing to leave Iraq. Her blog is a deeply personal, brooding diary of events that have transpired since the American occupation. I have often thought of this gifted and articulate young woman, her family, and how they were surviving their ordeal. Last week, there was a new post (dated September 6, 2007). She writes:<BR/><I><BR/>I said goodbye to my desk - the one I’d used all through high school and college. I said goodbye to the curtains and the bed and the couch. I said goodbye to the armchair E. and I broke when we were younger. I said goodbye to the big table over which we’d gathered for meals and to do homework. I said goodbye to the ghosts of the framed pictures that once hung on the walls, because the pictures have long since been taken down and stored away - but I knew just what hung where. I said goodbye to the silly board games we inevitably fought over - the Arabic Monopoly with the missing cards and money that no one had the heart to throw away.<BR/><BR/>I knew then as I know now that these were all just items- people are so much more important. Still, a house is like a museum in that it tells a certain history. You look at a cup or stuffed toy and a chapter of memories opens up before your very eyes.<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>She survived her passage into Syria where a new life awaits. One would have to be a stone to read her story without shedding a tear. Well worth reading, please check her blog <B>Baghdad Burning</B> at:<BR/><BR/>http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/Swampcrackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022608059441904192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5835778370448164083.post-92052928188470519432007-09-19T14:05:00.000-04:002007-09-19T14:05:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Swampcrackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022608059441904192noreply@blogger.com