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| Iraq |
| "I don't see Iraq. I hear it." |
| 2008-03-18 |
| "Teflon Don" @ "Acute Politics" When I close my eyes, I don't see Iraq. I hear it. Every night when I close my eyes and go to sleep, the quiet night is broken by the ringing memory of bombs long blown apart. I heard Iraq once in the gunshots as a man died in a bad drug deal nearby, and I hear it still every afternoon when the grade school across the fence recesses. I still hear the music, too. . . . Go read the rest of it. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 we human are hard wired as visual processors, and are very language centric in our auditory processing. smells and non-lingual sounds are not very important to our higher brain, so we process them at a more emotional level. from my psych 101 class. |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2008-03-18 22:38 |
| #3 For me, its the smell of cordite, and the smell oil makes when it burns, and the electrical smell a burning tank makes. And the dry smell. and the nasty wet dog covered in cat crap smell of the Euphrates. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-03-18 15:02 |
| #2 I hate to break it to him, but I,m getting pretty far away from my own, yett the stuff does come back. Noise and smell. Something about those that we cannot filter quite as well. It goes straight in and wakes things up that we wish we had forgotten. It gets less frequent as time passes, but it never gets better, just more familiar. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-03-18 15:01 |
| #1 all along the watchtower, sky pilot, tuesday morning, muddy water, fire, clouds, hey jude, yea this stuff still happens forty years later, sometimes it scares the shit out of you, sometimes it doesn't. |
| Posted by: bman 2008-03-18 11:53 |