HW:35 An Open Letter to Riverbend
Posted by pgraham on April 7th, 2008
As I was reading your blog entries from August 19 to August 30th, I thought that your views were altered and your ideas were dumb. I maintained strong faith in my American heritage, but as I read on I became sympathetic. I realized that I am spoiled seeing that my home land is not getting bombed. I cannot imagine to be able to here bombs and no matter how oppressed people like me were, I do not know how well I would take another country invading my homeland. Children getting killed and innocent people getting their homes invaded would anger me also. I am sorry for the atmosphere you lived in but I have to stay loyal to the U.S. I feel like I’m being ignorant but I can’t help how I feel. Reading your blog did give me a brutal realization of what was going on in the Iraqi conflict and from an actual Iraqi civilian point of view and I thank you for giving me that insight.