28 November, 2008

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I just finish watching Band of Brothers, for the second time. Watching a good movie is like having delightful sex. You want to talk to someone at the end. Since I don’t have my dear friends around me, I’m doing the next best thing. Writing to you guys.

First time I watch that in HBO some years back. What a movie it was. 12 long hours. I don’t know how humanly possible to create such a movie, long 12 hours and still every millisecond of it very well planed, and most of all, very well done. Only way I can explain that is, Spielberg, Tom Hanks and others who made this movie are above normal human capacity. So I watched it again.

I’m not a big fan of war. I’m a type of a person, who likes to send other people to do evil things to evil people, so I can sleep tight on my comfortable bed every night. Been such a person have lot of advantages. It gives me chance to have my hot Ceylon tea and discuses about war with my friends or argue about it in blogs. It gives me chance to be proud about those men and woman we send out there to do evil things to evil people in evil circumstances. And click forward button in my outlook and show how much I care about those people. Or write something like let triple gem protect our solders or Gold bless our solders. And then go on doing other things such as look at funny emails or have Chinese fried rice with deviled chicken.

Even you like war or not, everyone must watch Band of Brothers. Not because it is a good movie. Because it can make you little bit closer to the experience solders go through in every millisecond, so you don’t have to do what they are doing. It will make you think twice before next time you say yes or no to war. It will make you shame of yourself if you click on the link minutes before, because you thought somehow you can support our troops by clicking on a link.

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4 Comments:

Blogger anonymous blogger said...

Let me remind you something you forgot here.
If I can not point a Kalashnikov at your head, I will take a stone, a piece of wood or what ever it is there.
Evil or not, fighiting over land rights, women, glory and the list to continue, has always been there, and will be there.
It is how the nature commands.

November 28, 2008 9:54 PM  
Blogger anonymous blogger said...

continue....
So, If I can not fight the LTTE terrorist, I will pay my taxes to the government who maintain armed forces to protect my land rights.
Same thing, or NO?

November 28, 2008 9:56 PM  
Blogger Sam said...

//Same thing, or NO?//
NO. It is exactly my point. Solders do more important things than protect land right or woman or whatever in that list. They spare us doing the job they do. Most of us do not understand the luxury of not been a solder. You and I have luxury of talking about it today, because they are doing the evil things to evil people, so we don’t have to do that. I don’t know about you, but most of us could not point a Kalashnikov to someone’s head and trigger, or live our lives same way after that. Most of us do not want to die or watch our arms or legs by the side of us separated from our body shaking by its own. Or hold our own guts not letting them fall everywhere until a medic comes to helps. Solders spare us all of that. Can you put a price on that? I don’t think so. How much a dead father of a two children, a 3 year old boy with asthma, worth to you in rupees? Or matter of fact how much you willing to accept for your left pinky. Not a big one. Just to part with your left pinky.
So My answer is NO. And it is a Big NO.

November 28, 2008 11:13 PM  
Blogger අමා said...

I agree with Sam. I know that I can never even hope to make a good soldier. I am too pampered, lazy and undiciplined. And I am also chicken. If the govt. says 'No, people of SL you don't have to pay tax. You can go and fight in the war instead' I will be at a loss.
And remember the young guys at the front - they are not super men who do not fear death/war/pain. They do. And that makes it even more admirable in my eyes. Facing something not because you do not fear it - but facing it despite your fears.

November 30, 2008 2:47 AM  

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