Sweet Home...?

The time has come. I will be out of town, and virtually nonexistent for the next three weeks. Huntsville, Alabama will be my place of residence until the second week of June.

I do see a benefit in this, when I shoot a movie I tend to divorce myself from current events - even when I'm shooting here in the DC area. So I will not have the usual amount of rage that must be vented. I will be doing my own :constructive: part in the war effort - keeping Soldiers from blowing themselves up.

Many people have asked my how I can justify the work I do in my day job, since much of it revolves around the military. I have to say that at first I thought like they did, but as I got to know the people in the military, the real Soldiers who do the work - it became apparent to me that they have a job to do, and are allowed to ask fewer questions than those in the civilian world. Further, they do not make policy - they enforce or execute it. It gives much more credence to the mantra "the troops have done a fantastic job, the president has lost the war."

This may or may not be wholly accurate. As in any profession there are those who do a better job than others. But they have to do what they are told. They can't just give two weeks notice. They can't debate the finer points of their orders. They have to do what their commander in chief tells them to do. No questions.

So if I can stop even one Soldier from falling victim to an IED - I will have succeeded and not have a "conscience" problem.

I may find the time to post some updates from a very Red state on days off, depends on how much is going on in the hotel business center - but rest assured, I will be back with more ranting and probably more perspective in June. Almost everyone I will be working with down there has been to Iraq and/or Afghanistan. And I have already gleaned that what the majority of Americans think of this war, the majority of Soldiers do too.