Today since we didn't have too much to do and Hannah started back to school we thought we would go see a movie. We don't go to often as it is just too expensive, but we thought we would catch a matinee, and thus be cheaper. We had talked previously about seeing Zero Dark Thirty, the movie about the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound and the team that killed him. It was a little graphic in the beginning when they were interrogating the prisoners that the United States had captured in the Middle East. I know though that we were not near as inhuman as they were towards their prisoners. I don't want to get into a political discussion here because that is an area that is very sensitive. So....you need to go see it I guess to come to your own conclusions. I don't know if any of you have gone but I can tell you one thing for sure........you walk out of that theater ready to kiss the ground, that you were born in the United States. Wow! Do we take for granted here the freedoms that this country allows us as citizens. We may grumble and complain but I think living there for one week would be enough for me to be ready to come back to higher taxes, and milk prices. The women, Sheesh! I don't know how they live under the brutal treatment that they endured just because they were born female.
Anyway, I just wanted to share and to write down for my own self to read again some day, to remind myself, (without seeing the movie again) how fortunate I am to live where I do.
I don't think it is going to be as cold or dreary in Indiana tomorrow as it was yesterday or today. The sun will be out, "if" it is hidden by the clouds. If any of you saw the Golden Globe awards last night on TV you saw that Jessica Chastain won for best actress in a drama for Zero Dark Thirty. She played a CIA agent who was responsible for finding Bin Laden. I told my husband she deserved the award simply because of all the names she had to learn to pronounce in the movie.
As Lee Greenwood's famous song says: I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free! God Bless the USA!
Your re so right, Having served 4 years flying in the US Navy and visiting more countries than I can count, we have the best of the best here in the USA. Everyday I thank God my family and I are born in America.Even the so called free countries didn't measure up to what we take for granted let alone places like the middle east.Be safe out there Sam & Donna..
ReplyDeleteThank you for your service to our country, you and many others are why we live in this great country the way we do.
DeleteCan't wait to see that movie.
ReplyDeleteI think you will like it, sometimes hard to follow though. Let me know when you do.
DeleteWe do take a lot for granted being an American. Thanks for the reminder, that we do live in a great country!!!
ReplyDeleteI know I sure do. I am glad we saw the movie and good for all of us to have a wake up call now and then.
DeleteHear Hear, Tammy ... me too. I haven't seen the movie but I'm an American chauvinist also.... ;)
ReplyDeleteIt is no wonder so many are trying to get into this country to live. I would be too I guess if I had to live under the conditions they do.
DeleteZero Dark Thirty is one movie I'd really like to see. Right after we watch Lincoln!
ReplyDeleteI hope you like them both. Lincoln was really good too. We saw it first. Long movie and totally the opposite of Zero Dark Thirty, quiet and no action.
DeleteThe movie sounds really good and really good for us to help us realize our freedoms.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing!
Yes, it did a good job of smacking us and saying be thankful for where you live. Those poor people born in the Middle East, to live like they do really sad.
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