I Miss My Uncle Lowell

Pink, with her father, on the Vietnam war.



Let's pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan now so that fewer have to bear this pain. We have means of responding to 9/11 and other attacks that don't involve the needless slaughter of devoted and admirable young men and women.

My uncle died of cancer that can be traced back to Vietnam. The stories he told me are immeasurably horrifying, and they weigh on my conscience every day.

He would have been the first to accept me as a homo, and I miss him so much...

Time to get out, and time to figure out a way to not need them.