- I reached your website from Not In Our Name one, and noticing the empathy you have with the wars victims (including yourselves), encouraged me to write to you even when being a foreigner, from Argentina, a country which is part of what in US was called "the backyard", which suffered in the 70's a terrible military dictatorship supported by the US anticommunism "effort", which preemptively "disappeared" 30,000 people and sunk us with an unpayable external debt, which suffered bombings from Muslim terrorists while being suspected by the US government, from time to time, of providing these very same terrorists a place to hide and train, something most of us feel as a threat against us to ensure we will properly behave with our lenders.
Well, that's the way I see our world, and I may be wrong, but the important thing here is that your government, powerful enough to rule the world, doesn't care about others outside the US, at least in it public image, giving us reasons to believe the US is becoming a threat for everyone around the world daring to choose the "wrong path", i.e., in those days, to oppose globalization. This threat is growing with the implementation of the preemptive war doctrine, which was invented by Hitler and once was severely criticized by the US, and when we can see how US citizens are losing their rights every day in the hands of a government pretending to show itself as the democracy paladin and teacher around the world.
Knowing there are people inside of the US who still think on their own, holding the fire of the spirit of the Founders, which once made the US great, and a moral leader for the rest of the world, is a relief for the rest of us. This gives us hope that another world, a better world, is still possible.
But this is specially true and remarkable when this people are soldiers, those who suffered the fate of being in a war (no matter which one, which side or the reasons), forced to dehumanize themselves and then be watched over the shoulders of a lot of people afterwards, having to find a place, a motivation, to give some sense to the nightmare, the lost friends, and the ghosts. I think you needed a lot of bravery in your hearts to face the horrors and question what you've done, and I believe that, even when this was, perhaps, the hardest path to choose, this is the way to bring up something good from this. For this, you have my admiration, and even when this may sound way wrong for several of you, I'll say something I feel deeply in my soul, and I hope you to give my words the same meaning they have for me.
I forgive you. As an human being, as a tinny part of this world, I forgive you for what you've done before, because what you're doing now is making a difference, towards a world where some people won't die from a bullet not fired by someone you convinced, where those ones you convinced, mostly kids, won't have to face the same ghosts you had to.
From the bottom of my heart,
THANK YOU!
Marcos Diez.
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