Many of you have beliefs about this current war.

Some against, some for, some that don't really care.

It varies..

But how accurate is the information we are receiving really?

My father left two months ago for the Middle East in the honest belief that he was supporting his nation and that he was fighting a fleet of angry, and blood-thirsty terrorists. When I asked him to name why these people were fighting and why, he couldn't name the three major religious factions over there. It was simply, them.. the terrorists that hate America.

My father is an intelligent man, but he's also extremely defensive of what he believes is right.

It is a tangled web of propaganda and jingoism that our nation, government, media, and masses weave as we sit safely behind the cushion of our televisions and yellow ribbons.

So now that he is arriving home tomorrow at four p.m. My house is coated in these yellow ribbons, these metallic holographic red, white, and blue flags that hang from wall to wall.

He left with the promise of money, lots of money, and the belief that he is protecting his family against a greater evil.

Strange.. it feels like we're on a sidewalk, and to protect us he's running out onto free-way traffic to stop the cars with his body weight and faith in a government that has been lying to it's own people.

I don't claim to have all the answers.. I don't claim to have accurate information to what is really happening.

But I do declare that the presence of these ribbons and decorations that reinforce my father's beliefs that it's okay to leave home for long periods of time to a completely distraught part of the world for a load of money really FUCKING bothers me. If they were just welcome home banners and this and that, sure.. it wouldn't bother me. But it's partiotic left and right.. America this, America that.

Nevermind me though, I'm just a pale old man that speaks madness.. I'll soon be forgotten.