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Friday, January 13, 2006

Wocka! Wocka! Wocka!

Posted by on January 13 at 11:36 AM

USA Today:

When the stress of the war in Iraq becomes too severe, the Pentagon has a suggestion for military families: Learn how to laugh.

With help from the Pentagon’s chief laughter instructor, families of National Guard members are learning to walk like a penguin, laugh like a lion and blurt “ha, ha, hee, hee and ho, ho.”

The Pentagon’s chief laughter instructor? That’s got to be a tough gig.


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This makes me want to kick someone in the balls. Hard.

Our tax dollars at work. I agree this makes me want to kick someone (Bush) hard in the balls.

When a loved one is in a war zone, you do what you need to do to feel better about it. If that ends up being laughing at nothing via stupid drama-school exercises, well, it's hard to argue with that. (That wasn't the answer for me. I slept a lot, worked a lot, and spent time with people who distracted me from moping. Laughing helps, but I don't want to laugh at nothing.)

That said, this article captures what's always most bothered me, the cavalier spirit the administration has about the wars: "It's not a big deal that your loved one is at war, here's something to distract you!" Living every day with the possibility of someone you love DYING deserves better than to be treated as something you can just laugh away.

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