Reply #55: close? depends on what you mean :) [View All]

i consider myself close only with my mother and my husband, really. however, i have some (now former) friends who voted for bush. one in particular stands out because i tried to talk to him before the election and things went downhill very quickly. he's trained to be a police officer but hasn't found a job yet. he's very healthy and fit. he is not married, has no children, and delivers pizzas (not in school) and he's 22 years old. in other words, a perfect recruit for our military. i asked him why he didn't enlist (since the main reason he was voting for bush was in support of the war in iraq). i explained that i didn't wish any harm to come to him with my suggestion, but since he was so certain that this war was necessary and just, that he ought to back that up with his actions. his reply was something along the lines of "i was extremely close to enlisting with the marines last summer and if i feel like it, sometime i'll tell you why". my reply was "your reasons don't matter, you are capable and you aren't there, even though you think it's necessary that others are there to fight and die. i don't need to know why. bottom line, you could go, and you won't. any reason you could give is merely an excuse, and i won't be waiting around for you to 'tell me why when you feel like it'"
he was one a very few people that were invited to our wedding

that's the last time we spoke and the last time we will speak.