Children of War
by Bill Douglas
 I
can't bear this. I've seen the fruits of war. My Daddy came home from years of
the war in 1945, and in 1957 when I was born he was still raging, and raged for
many years after that. He was a very hard man who struggled like a warrior to
try to contain the rage that roiled within him for the rest of his life, and to
find and give love. His battle raged..
My father raged, delivering small doses of the rage he had been dealt by
his government, by the world, by humanity as it raged on its most precious
resource, its young men. He raged on my Momma, and he raged on us. He damaged me
and my brother and sisters in many ways that I have long since forgiven him for,
because I know how he struggled to heal from it, just as I am struggling to heal
from it to this very day. They call it "post traumatic stress", as if it was
only something the warriors struggle to heal from, but it's actually something
that humanity struggles to heal from.
The rage that children of war, which is all of us, are feeling, and that
has been re-ignited by this horrible event is not healed -- I struggle with it
every day of my life, and now my children have been damaged by it as well, and
now they struggle to understand the ghosts that unleash the rage I gave them.
God, let's not re-open these wounds again. There are many in the Middle East who
are the children of war, and some so damaged that they got into an airplane and
cruelly killed so many innocent children of God from so many nations on this
precious blue home we call planet Earth.
I guarantee one thing that I know in my bones -- more war will never heal
these wounds. It will require a great leap for humanity to transcend this, and
to move to our most precious destiny that lies beyond the pain of war. God has
chosen the United States for something grand.
If the United States can transcend this tragedy, if we can rise to another
plane, we can do a wondrous and miraculous thing. There are legions of angels
waiting for us to do this. I feel them calling to me, that is why you have
received this email and perhaps others from me. They are driving me to do this.
Believe me I want to forget, to hate, to rage, and to join in the national
delusion that we can find victory in war, but these angels are welling up their
gentle message within me -- I cannot silence it, it drums on my soul with a
force I cannot deny. I realize many will see me as weak, and deluded, and
perhaps try to destroy me or my career as I depend on the public for my living,
but I cannot remain silent, I must speak. My father's soul cries to me from
beyond the grave.
It is time to lift ourselves beyond the solution of revenge. We have no
choice really if we can see the image that exists just beneath the surface of
what we see. There is no other way than to transcend. If we do not use this
opportunity to transcend to a higher plane, thereby providing an example to the
world, the world may never survive.
I believe, and believe the angels are telling me, that America has been
spared the suffering of the rest of the world, so that we can be enabled to
transcend. We are not so tied up in the suffering of the world, not because we
are "better" or "more holy" than the world, but because we are being given an
opportunity to lift the world to another level. Our gift of being spared the
agony of every modern war, has given us the responsibility of bringing the
planet, the precious planet earth, to the next level. We can say to the world,
"we will NOT respond in kind." We can say to the world, "there is another way,
and it begins right here, right now -- with us." How many times have we wished
the Israelis, or the Palestinians, would do such a thing?
Some will say I am not patriotic. I say that my father's ghost calls to
me, imploring me, demanding that I say these words to the world. This is the
only patriotism I know. I must translate the pounding in my soul into these
words, I have no alternative. And I believe that you feel it pounding in your
soul as well.
Let's let this holy answer pour through us like a river of sorrow, of
pain, of transformation, and hope, as we open the door for humanity to move in a
different path. Let's redefine who we are as a nation. Let's convene the United
Nations and call for a worldwide ban on weapons production and exportation. The
United States is the world's largest weapons manufacturer and exporter. We can
change the world. The power of us using this personal tragedy to step forward
with such a statement can change the course of humanity. I beg you to beg
everyone you know to urge our government, our media, and every citizen to carry
this message into the human plane. The angels are begging us not to squander
this opportunity.
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