Three years ago tonight....

[kentuck]

We had the "Shock and Awe" and the bombs dropped on Baghdad and many Americans reacted as if they were looking at a fireworks show on the Fourth of July. And George Bush gave his announcement to the nation that we had officially declared war on the country of Iraq...

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/launch.bmp

[catmother]

1. i remember watching on tv. i was shocked and awed.

:wtf:

[NanceGreggs]

6. Whoa, good one, sis!

I remember watching it and thinking, "Does any Repub out there in TV-land who support this debacle realize that there are innocent people in those buildings?

It's now three years later - and I'm afraid too many of them STILL have never given that a moment's thought.

[Canuckistanian]

2. I didn't watch anything

I knew that thousands of people were going to die needlessly. I mourned for them.

[rodeodance]

5. yes, i knew people were probably dying

[LaurenG]

3. I remember the days leading up to this

as being a desperate and anxious part of my life. I lived in Kentucky at the time and my lovely senator wrote me a letter telling me that he knew better than I did and also that he knew things I didn't and he was going to make sure Saddam was taken out. I despised him for that and I moved across the river because of it. A lot of good that did though. :shrug: :cry:

[rodeodance]

4. i recall that evening. 3 years later it all sounds so surreal

[bluedog]

7. my neighbors were hollering

clapping.yahooing and having a damn party.......they were happy as roaches on a dog bone.....yep...live right by RW'ers here in Fl.......

[Crazy Guggenheim]

8. Didn't many Cabinet officials "take the weekend off" when the war started?

:applause: :popcorn:

[dogday]

9. Only they could come up with a name like

Shock n Awe to describe killing people.....

[salin]

10. Sombering moment of commemoration.

for those who lost lives, homes, families, limbs, and normalcy.

[Bluzmann57]

11. At work that night

Heard a report on the radio and started cursing. A lot. Some of the guys were looking at me like I was insane and a couple of them muttered something like, "It's about time. Bomb the ragheads out of existence." It turns out that I was right and some have since admitted it to me. I try to be gracious, but it ain't easy. This is not some fucking sports event, this is deadly serious stuff. My boss is a Viet Nam vet and he has gotten increasingly outspoken against this folly. Since he has actually seen combat, people tend to listen to him.

[leftofthedial]

12. the beginning of the shame

the degradation of America and all it has ever stood for.

[uppityperson]

13. 3 yrs ago tonight I went to dance class and couldn't talk

They asked what the problem was, I just shook my head and class began. After class, I cried and told them what the problem was. It was a middle-eastern dance class too.