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15. My flashback went back to March 2003

Sun Jan 4, 2026, 05:59 PM

Jan 4

My daughter was tending bar and I went to visit her. The TV was on and it was the first day of the U.S. bombing of Bagdad. It was such a surreal experience, as the few people in the bar weren't even paying any attention. I knew everything was leading up to that moment, but I still couldn't believe the U.S. was doing it. I was overwhelmed and on the verge of tears.

Then I woke up yesterday to the headlines that the U.S. was bombing Caracas and that same feeling came back, only this time it was worse, as it meant that in two decades we have learned nothing. What little hope or optimism I had just melted away and I've been on the verge of tears ever since.

I don't have another two or three decades and I hate that his could be the world I am leaving my grandchildren.

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