May 09, 2008
MILESTONES
When we started trying to have a baby a year and a half ago, my husband was dismayed that he hadn't reached two goals yet: he wanted to have X amount of net worth, and he wanted to be finished with his MBA. But that was our
safe year, so we had to take advantage of his non-deployable status.
Well, last month we hit that X amount of money, and now I'm happy to announce that my husband passed his last two classes right before he deployed and finished his MBA program.
So anyway...Hey, baby, any time you feel like finally joining our family, feel free. Everything's squared away for your arrival. We've got fun knitted animals for you to play with, you've got a dresser full of clothes that the SpouseBUZZers bought for you, and now your screaming won't bother your father while he's trying to do homework.
Anytime now...
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Wow. Congratulations to you both. Amazing milestones you guys have hit!
Praying for that baby!!
Posted by: Tonya at May 09, 2008 05:59 AM (KV0YP)
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I'm sending crossed fingers and prayers....
And I was serious about compensating you for some knitting projects. I don't know how to knit and your stuff is gorgeous.... Please e-mail me if you are interested...
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May 08, 2008
UPDATE
I just heard from my husband; he made it to Kuwait. Naturally, they got bumped from heading into Iraq and will be staying there and wasting a few days, which makes you wonder why they had to leave the US in such a rush if they're just gonna sit around, but that's the Army. He sounds good. He said Kuwait looks a whole lot different than it did back in 2004.
I told him I keep forgetting that he's gone, and every time I read a good blog post or article, I forget that I can't show it to him when he gets home.
I'm anxious for a mailing address.
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So glad he could call & give you the update!! That's a relief. I'm looking forward to an address as well. Can send the Mr. a little SpouseBuzz Mail.
As an aside, I have exchanged the knitting needles for the right ones (I bought metal AND bamboo...is that bad). I also bought more yarn. Um, I can't even really do this yet and I have already started a stash. Is that the sign of a problem??
I'm so glad your husband phoned and that you had a chance to catch up. I say just cut and paste those web addresses into an e-mail so he can read them when he needs to wind down after a long day.
Hubs thought your photo with the 4-star is worthy of framing, btw.
I should probably just start e-mailing you if my comments are going to be this ridiculously long, huh?
Posted by: Guard Wife at May 08, 2008 07:21 AM (BslEQ)
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Good old hurry up and wait. Glad his trip so far has been uneventful, and I'm glad you got to hear his voice
Posted by: dutchgirl at May 08, 2008 07:24 AM (+usWx)
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those calls are always great!!
take care of yourself and i look fwd to reading more of your insights during this second deployment of yours. what a great treat on 7 MAY
Posted by: Mel at May 08, 2008 12:10 PM (M8tnx)
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They really were in a hurry--we had our "forward" mailing addresses before we left the states. I shipped myself some clothes and odds and ends that wouldn't fit in my ruck and duffel. It was kind of nice getting a care package (albeit from myself) right after I arrived.
Sig
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May 07, 2008
A DEPLOYMENT DAY LIKE NO OTHER
My plans for this week were perfect until my husband's deployment kept getting moved forward. Once that happened, I had to make a very unusual and difficult choice: Do you accept an invitation to the White House on the day your husband is supposed to deploy? Any other invitation in the world, you obviously turn down. But the White House? That's big. That gives you pause.
I asked around, and the general consensus was that other wives would not go to the White House. But I still had to decide for myself. I had a talk with my husband about my choice, and what he said blew my mind. He said, "The White House is the White House, and obviously that's a big deal. But what I think is really important is that you go spend time with your friends, people who love you. You don't have anyone here in town to take care of you while I'm gone, and when else are you going to get the chance to be with your good friends? If they're coming in from all over the country, then you need to go be with people who care about you."
And he was right.
It was so exciting to be able to take this photo on Tuesday:
But it honestly means so much more to me to have taken this one:
I spent the day surrounded by people who lift my spirits, who make me happy, and who grok what I am going through. They cracked me up and helped me forget my sorrow. And they reminded me of how lucky I am to have them in my life.
My husband was right: I really did need this.
I raced home right after the event and had six hours to spend with my husband before I dropped him off at his unit headquarters to deploy. And we felt good, no tears at all. Just a supplication for me to have "Spartan courage" and for him to "come back with his shield or on it." A quick kiss goodbye, and that was that.
And so the deployment begins.
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Holy Moly! What a choice. But what a day it must have been. Did you get to meet the President?
Posted by: Mare at May 07, 2008 12:03 PM (EI19G)
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Nah, I didn't get to meet him; I was just one invitee out of about 1400. But it was still super-cool to be invited. I did get to meet SecDef Gates and GEN Cody though!
Posted by: Sarah at May 07, 2008 01:15 PM (TWet1)
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I knew you and AWTM must be doing something special. Tough decision but you got to see him off so to me there wasn't really a big decision to make, right?
Posted by: Heidi at May 07, 2008 03:50 PM (ShL/Y)
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Sarah -
Good for you! And for your husband.
You two totally get each other.
I'm WAY jealous.
Tim
Posted by: Tim Fitzgerald at May 07, 2008 04:11 PM (Nki/C)
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A couple of my friends here went to that. My neighbor even brought me back the lovely letters from the Bushes. It was very cool! I wish I could have been there!
I am so glad that you were able to still see him off!! My thoughts and prayers are with you!
Posted by: Vyoergirl at May 07, 2008 04:43 PM (qe77L)
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Thinking of you both. Love and Prayers, Ramirez Family
Posted by: jennifer at May 07, 2008 06:57 PM (mlZxF)
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It was sooo good to see you & hang out with everyone. We need to do that more often!
Take care & we'll chat soon.
Posted by: Guard Wife at May 08, 2008 03:46 AM (BslEQ)
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Wow. What a day for you! I'm happy that you sound so good so far. You guys are definitely an inspirational couple!
Thinking of you!
Posted by: Tonya at May 08, 2008 10:09 AM (KV0YP)
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Sarah,
Bless you both. So glad that it seemed right to both of you for you to attend.
With a prayer and smile from Arlington,
Lisa
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May 06, 2008
POETRY WEDNESDAY
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:
So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move,
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did and meant,
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assur'd of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to aery thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.
-- John Donne
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Posted by: Butterfly Wife at May 07, 2008 01:43 AM (YkizZ)
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I don't know what to say, but John Donne says it all.
Posted by: Ruth H at May 07, 2008 04:15 AM (FAgoX)
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More big hugs from this corner.
Posted by: FbL at May 07, 2008 04:33 AM (HwqvF)
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Sarah - This gives me chills. Though I know know you personally, I've been thinking of you often. Take Care, Keri
Posted by: Keri at May 07, 2008 05:01 AM (HXpRG)
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Big hugs...and now the countdown has begun...
Posted by: CaliValleyGirl at May 07, 2008 05:06 AM (irIko)
Posted by: Mare at May 07, 2008 11:03 AM (EI19G)
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Sarah,
I can only imagine what you are feeling and the emotions you have. I would just like to tell you that this American and I know I speak for many others, is so very thankful for your husbandÂ’s service and your sacrifice.
Please know that you both are appreciated and mere words cannot express our gratitude.
Also, if possible, please keep us updated as frequently as possible. In that-odd, internet, strangers who kind’a, sort’a know each other but really don’t-way I feel I “know” your husband. At the least in a small way, though enough to want to hear how he (and you) is doing. (Did that make any sense?)
Anyways, carry on & thank you.
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May 04, 2008
GETTING READY TO LEAVE
The last time my husband deployed, I spent
the day before he left sewing new rank on since he got promoted that day. I wish I could tell you what I spent yesterday doing, but it's majorly opsec. It's such a good story and really freaking weird, but alas. Curse my husband's new security clearance!
I wrote about his packing headaches at SpouseBUZZ.
And we've been getting ourselves properly pumped up on dorkosterone before he leaves. I started reading Gates of Fire again. Tonight we're watching his favorite movie: Miracle. And last night we went with his Farsi class buddies to Hooters so he could get his fill of beer and ogling chicks before he leaves.
I feel pretty good this time. I don't feel scared: his job will be low-key. I don't feel bad about the length: we did longer pre-R&R last time than his entire deployment will be this time. And I feel optimistic about our chances with the fertility treatments too.
I just feel a smidge sad that my best friend is leaving me for the rest of 2008.
At least I have Charlie this time.
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um, does mean he leaves, like, tomorrow now?
we are thinking of you.
Posted by: kate at May 04, 2008 09:45 AM (576n8)
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Enjoy your time together. Charlie will be a great deployment buddy.
As for the fertility treatments, those must be pretty good if they work while he is deployed.
Posted by: Butterfly Wife at May 04, 2008 10:38 AM (YkizZ)
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*LOL @ Butterfly Wife*
I'm sad that he's going to be gone, but happy to see that you seem to have a good grip on it all. You're awesome!
Posted by: FbL at May 04, 2008 11:05 AM (HwqvF)
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Thank you both for serving our country.
Posted by: maryindiana at May 04, 2008 03:19 PM (eG5B3)
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You always get my imagination going when you say those opsec things. Now I'm so curious I can barely stand it.
Call me after he leaves. Even if Tucker is screaming, Lewis is seizing, and my house is on fire all at the same time, I swear I will answer the phone.
Posted by: Erin at May 04, 2008 04:10 PM (y67l2)
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"dorkosterone" LOL! I've been thinking about you lately, even if I haven't had time to comment. I hope the days go by quickly.
Posted by: dutchgirl at May 04, 2008 05:07 PM (+usWx)
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You sound really positive. You made me laugh. I got to watch every episode of The Office before my hubby left this past time.
May your time speed by!
Posted by: Tressa at May 05, 2008 04:51 AM (yY6P+)
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This brought back memories of my husband's deployment! The day we said goodbye, I went to a nursery (it was in the spring time) and spent a small fortune on plants for our yard.
We were renting at that time from our in-laws so I had some freedom when it came to yard work.
I must say, it was incredibly therapeutic to put those plants in and it gave me something to do that year.
I couldn't wait for him to see it! Because really, all those hours spent in the garden was in preparation for his homecoming.
I've planted a couple gardens since then in different places- but that one will always be special to me. I did it out of love and faith.
Good luck Sarah. You'll get through this.
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May 03, 2008
SIGH
OK, this stopped being funny. My husband's deployment got moved forward again.
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That makes my stomach clench up on your behalf.
I don't know what to say, except "sigh" with you.
Posted by: Sis B at May 03, 2008 07:03 AM (0ZS+T)
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Oh,
man... I'm dizzy. I can't imagine how you feel.
Posted by: FbL at May 03, 2008 10:47 AM (HwqvF)
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ditto to the "sigh". :-\
*hugs*
Posted by: loquita at May 03, 2008 03:51 PM (/qgKT)
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CEREAL
What?
Mothers-to-be who skip breakfast and eat less are more likely to give birth to girls, while moms who consume more calories and a wider range of nutrients — including, specifically, those from breakfast cereal — are more likely to deliver sons.
Wait wait wait. If we want a boy, I have to eat more? Done and done. And I eat breakfast cereal every single day. Sweet, we're golden.
Yeah, um, Tessa brings up the logical question here: Don't males carry the deciding chromosomes? Still, it's an interesting correlation. And if I were any good at conceiving at all, I would give it a try, but we're just gonna have to take what we can get.
Now excuse me while I go eat my breakfast cereal.
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You know, that is funny. When I was pregnant with my son, I ate more cereal than I probably ever had before. But, I ate it as an evening snack - literally almost every single night! I probably haven't eaten that much cereal in the past 5 yrs since he was born either....odd.
Posted by: Vypergirl at May 03, 2008 04:18 AM (qe77L)
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The males carry the deciding chromosome, but the different hormones present in the woman's body make certain genders more likely to "stick".
For instance, X and Y sperm swim at different speeds, thus, depending on the exact time in a woman's fertility cycle that she gets knocked up, the acidity level of the vagina combined with the distance to the egg (how far it has gotten in its journey) and a few other factors influence whether one is more likely to have a boy than a girl - early in the cycle pregnancies tend more often to be girls, and late in the cycle pregnancies tend more often to be boys. In fact, they have done studies documenting that Orthodox Jews have a much greater tendency towards delivering boys because of the religious restrictions placed on when during the cycle a woman and man may have sex.
There's a whole bunch more to it, and even more little bodily quirks and oddities - but it makes sense that what you eat would affect which gender is more likely to "stick" during a pregnancy, since it affects your entire body chemistry.
//sorry - something I had to learn a lot about of necessity...
Posted by: airforcewife at May 03, 2008 04:25 AM (mIbWn)
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The study isn't about conceiving a male fetus, it's about carrying it to term. Gender at conception is, of course, determined by the sperm cell. But higher blood sugar (not too high, of course) and a few other factors, mean the male fetus is more likely to survive and be born. It's as simple as that.
Posted by: Gus at May 03, 2008 06:53 AM (3UseY)
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May 02, 2008
YOU MUST BE KIDDING
Why Generation Y is broke
Let me guess...they're retarded?
The 28-year-old New York resident has a master's degree from a prestigious university, a successful career in photography, stamps in her passport from around the globe and, until recently, personal finances that were out of control.
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"[Her accountant] wrote me a letter that said, 'You've got to get your life together! Most of these bills aren't even open.' It was a really humbling thing," Wallace says. "But the next time, all my receipts were on a spreadsheet. No one had ever taught me to make a budget or balance a checkbook."
You're kidding me with this, right? No one ever taught me this either. Actually, that's not true: I think I remember having to balance a fake checkbook sometime around middle school for a math class assignment.
But for real, you have a Masters degree and it never occurred to you that you should keep track of your money? Like maybe use Excel or something, the easiest thing in the world. It does the math for you! I'm sure you're also, like, a total math-ophobe. Like numbers and stuff, ick. Who can do that?
"We're in a generation that was kind of shielded from a lot of financial responsibilities," says Wong. "Twenty years ago, when you were in college you didn't have a credit card, and (now) all of a sudden we had to take on debt to go to college. Then we get out of college and we have to have that handbag and an iPod," she says. "It is so easy to take on debt."
OMG, you did not just say that.
Many of these attitudes are evident in our relationships with our parents. Not for nothing have we been labeled the "boomerang generation": We may not all be living in our parents' wood-paneled basements, but a recent Pew survey found that 68% of baby boomers with kids are supporting an adult child financially.
Yep, I know several of them. And on the other end of the spectrum, you have people like me and my husband who, three years after we got married, sent our parents money for all the things we owed them for over the years. The laptop that I swore to my dad I would help pay for when I was in college, yep, never did. So I paid him back three years after I had passed the laptop on to my brother. Because he's my father and not some money tree. Once I realized the true value of money, I realized how much I'd asked of my parents over the years. And I paid them back.
Because I'm a grown-up, and grown-ups don't whine if they can't afford an iPod and they don't take advantage of other grown-ups, even if they happen to be mommy and daddy.
Why do we seem to get article after article these days about why 20 and 30 year olds can't seem to get their shit together? Quit making excuses for them like they weren't taught this in school or it's predatory lenders' fault. No one made her buy the handbag. When I was in college, I had a credit card with a $10,000 limit. I never put a dime on it. It was for emergencies only, and I knew the freaking definition of an emergency. It sure isn't Needing An iPod.
And no one had to teach me that! My parents didn't have to sit down and tell me what I could or could not put on a credit card. It's common freaking sense to not spend money you don't have.
Yeesh.
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Yet another fine example of book smarts equals dumb ass. Did she need a class to know how to use her iPod? Pathetic excuses.
Posted by: tim at May 02, 2008 04:08 AM (nno0f)
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Ah, the sweet smell of entitlement in the morning. Soon Apple will be accused of greed and not making their iPods more accessible to the financially "less fortunate". One day accessories might be considered a basic human right in the US (the rest of the world still mocks us)...don't laugh, we're getting there...
Posted by: CaliValleyGirl at May 02, 2008 04:26 AM (irIko)
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You're making me get up on my soapbox again!! Can we relate a good part of the current mortgage crisis to people who are just starting out thinking they need 3 -4 bedroom houses with a "man room", a large yard for the dog, and at least 2400 sq ft? Or have I just been watching too much HGTV?
Seriously, for a long time it has seemed to me that many young couples, married and unmarried, do not realize that "starting out" means just that. Starting out with less than they expect to accumulate in say 10- 50 years. People seem to think they should start with what their parents currently have. Do they have no inkling of how long it took to get there?
Okay, I'm climbing down now.
Posted by: Ruth H at May 02, 2008 05:08 AM (BkiKe)
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Christ on a crutch! These people make me so mad. I worked 2 jobs in college and I still had to take loans.
I don't believe in credit cards, don't have any, and frankly - don't really miss them.
I know they say children are the future, but with kids like this I'm scared.
Posted by: Mare at May 02, 2008 05:25 AM (EI19G)
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Good Lord.
Good. LORD.
Okay, so this is what happens when we try to make everything "just right" for our kids and "give them everything they need" when what they REALLY need is to work for something and have some sense of accomplishment and understanding of what it took to earn that money.
And don't even get me started on 4 bedroom "starter houses".
Posted by: airforcewife at May 02, 2008 06:56 AM (mIbWn)
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That is such crap. I'm almost 31 and our personal finances are FINE. I think the only time I was ever 'taught' anything about my checking accounts or anything was in bootcamp--and I went there when I was 24 and had already been living on my own for the past 3 years. So it was pointless. The only debt I had until I got married were my student loans (now we have the car, too), and I've had my own credit card since I was 18. All the bills get paid on time and we never charge more than we can pay off in a single month. To me, that's just common sense.
I don't understand how people can just play ignorant when it comes to this stuff.
Posted by: Ann M. at May 02, 2008 08:51 AM (HFUBt)
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Yeah, don't get me rolling on this one.....at my age I watched the credit card companies throw preapproved cards in the mail to me at age 19, 4 at a time and I'm snapping the cards with my name on them already in half as fast as they were coming. But I watched my friends run up debt so fast it made your head spin.....I had a friend in basic training who almost lost her clearance because of it....I just did not understand how she thought that the government would not consider her a threat....my kids, they will get a checking account with a debit card....until they understand the ramifications of credit.
Posted by: A Soldier's Wife at May 02, 2008 10:00 AM (oIINu)
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The idea that one can't do anything unless you've been *specifically taught* how to do it seems to be proliferating, and is probably related to the worship of "education."
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May 01, 2008
HILARIOUS
The funniest thing happened today. My mother-in-law sent us a package. My husband was on the phone with her while I opened it up, and I looked in the plastic bag that was on top. I said, "Um...it's a dead bird." My husband said, "What? She says it's something knitted."
It seems the Hitler cat killed a bird, and they put it in a bag and out in the garage to dispose of. And somehow that bag got grabbed when she went to put bags in the package for padding. It was the funniest thing ever. I can now say my mother-in-law mailed me a dead animal. I think that is a riot. My new favorite story.
The unfunniest thing also happened today. My husband's deployment got moved forward. He leaves soon now.
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I'm sorry. Sooner out = Sooner back? Yes? Maybe? But prolly not.
I wish I could fix it.
And I don't know how to knit. That peach premie was the f*ing cutest thing ever, EVER!! I want to learn how to do stained glass, but I doubt that I have the time or the patience.... It could be fairly lucrative, I suppose.
Do you ever sell your stuff versus give it away? Could I 'order' something from you and pay for it??? Please?
And if I haven't told you lately, I *heart* you! I do. I love you and Cali and Erin. (No, I am NOT drinking! Well, maybe a little.) No, no I am not drinking!!! You guys are just too kewl.!.
Posted by: Allison at May 01, 2008 06:15 PM (0hDLC)
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laughed about the bird - how ridiculous! (and yes, funny!) - sighed about the deployment. My brother leaves today. sigh again.
Posted by: prophet at May 02, 2008 08:22 AM (+EInj)
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Im not sure what I would have done with a package and a dead animal....it is quite the story....
I'm sorry about the deployment date.....but once it begins, it will also begin the start of being able to put days behind you and closer to it being over....but it still sucks.
~ASW
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THE HERE AND NOW
A thought from
Rachel Lucas:
IÂ’m pretty sure the multitude of African tribes who sold other Africans into slavery havenÂ’t apologized, either. TheyÂ’re still doing it, actually, but you never hear about that. All guys like Wright care about is what didnÂ’t happen to them at the hands of people who are no longer alive. You know, sometimes I wonder what hut-dwelling, persecuted, starving, or enslaved Africans - who are alive and dying right this second - would think about American blacks like Wright and Cone, if they could know about them. Which they canÂ’t because they live in abject poverty and terror and donÂ’t have a lot of spare time to surf the internet, seeing as how theyÂ’re so busy running from machete slaughters and waiting for their cup of rice each day, that is if it isnÂ’t hijacked by other Africans with guns.
I wonder how “supported” they would feel in their “blackness” to know that wealthy, intelligent, resourceful black Americans spend so much time and effort pounding away on shit that happened here hundreds of years ago instead of directing all that rage at injustice towards Africa itself. You know, maybe actually helping black people who need it about a million times more than your average Detroit gangbanger. Just a thought I have sometimes.
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Posted by: Erin at May 01, 2008 04:12 AM (y67l2)
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“I’m pretty sure the multitude of African tribes who sold other Africans into slavery haven’t apologized, either.”
Dovetailing this, if one was to use WrightÂ’s chicken/roost logic, one has to wonder what the slaves had done to deserve being enslaved.
Posted by: tim at May 01, 2008 04:54 AM (nno0f)
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Their stick wasn't as big as someone else's stick tim.
Anyway, black americans were being hung from trees in the 1930s and kept from voting in the 1950s, so we are not talking about 100s of years here. Wright's generation has plenty to be bitter about from their own time.
Posted by: Will at May 03, 2008 06:05 PM (m5WDW)
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Sarah: You said things I've thought about for years! Well spoken! People are dying over there, without a whisper. It's time we got mad!Thanks for speaking up!
Posted by: Mary at May 03, 2008 08:30 PM (3k4VW)
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