I cannot believe I did it!
I make fun of people all of the time for falling into journalistic traps, and I go and do it tonight. I am always sick of it when people ask me how I feel about 9/11. Yes, I know a lot on the subject but after a while I start to have fun with people.
I will make them feel guilty about the way Muslims were treated, and although I was a victim of a lot of hate, I tend to get more emotional when I tell these stories. I am sick of the questions about Islam always being asked to me, and I often wish I could lie about those.
So what about the military?
In the new industry soldiers are seen as easy bait. Get a story about a soldier going to war or coming back and you have at least 10 inches of space in the paper, along with photos, most likely in color and hundreds of people reading your work. Who does not love a story about a solider?
But what about the soldiers themselves?
I love how they are seen as an easy story, and not as complex people. I think this needs to change, and I think that when soldiers hear that people are going to ask them questions they need to feel safe knowing it will not be the same old questions being asked.
As sad as it is, the only time we see a soldier these days is in a political commercial, on the news talking about the war or at war. We rarely speak to those who are not at war.
We never hear the stories of soldiers do not want to fight.
I really wanna change this. Who knows I may be wrong, but there has to be more to our soldiers than what we need on TV.
