When someone tells me
that they serve/d our country, I find myself saying “thank you.” I don’t know
what else to say.
A man in my accounting class mentioned that he served in Iraq for about a year. I thanked him.
Seeming
uncomfortable, he shrugged it off. “Don’t thank me,” he responded.
“Why not?” I asked him, feeling slightly embarrassed.
“It was really a
waste of time. Your tax dollars are paying for the war and now my education,
but I didn’t do anything. We didn't do anything. We weren’t there because of terrorists. We went to
war for something else.”
“For what?” I questioned, but I already knew the answer.
He didn’t respond.
“For oil,” I
said quietly.
He nodded and
said, “Yes.”
