I received an email letter from a friend of mine that I haven't seen or heard from in years. I thought I would share it with you.
Dear Chad,
Forgive me for not staying in touch with you. As you know in 1999 I decided that I would avoid the mayhem and chaos that the Y2K bug was going to cause. Having just returned home this morning I have found that nothing actually happened.
Because of my unfounded fears of Y2K I chose to move to a small village in the foothills of the Andes mountains. I found a primiative but welcoming society of people and my hut had a tremendous view of the Amazon rain forest. For five years I lived there and had absolutely no contact with anyone or anything outside the village.
Well, I returned to the states this morning and I have been reading up on all the news. I still can't believe 9/11 actually took place. How terrible! But then I read what happened afterward. What a remarkable, no, unbelieveable time it has been!
To think that since I've been away the Taliban has been destroyed and women in Afghanistan no longer have to suffer as if they were cattle. I understand they recently had a democratic election too! Astonshing. When I left, that country was run by a brutal extreme religious group but in a few short years little girls are going to school again and even voting!
I also heard that Saddam Hussein is in prison and his two evil sons are dead! Holy cow, only a couple years ago when I left Hussein and his boys were killing Iraqis left and right and all the world feared his weapons programs. Now I find that he is gone and Iraq too just had free elections with huge numbers turning out to vote. What an amazing story. I've already seen images from the Iraq election and it is incredibly uplifting.
Sadly, I've also been reading that the left in the US is still trying to bash the President at every opportunity. You know, I'm sure this Bush fellow is not at all a perfect man. In fact, he sounds a little to macho. But geez I'm sure the tens of millions of people who no longer live in fear of death and torture are pretty happy this Bush guy is in White House.
What an amazing, historic 5 years I've missed.
See you soon.
Your pal,
a fake person who wrote a fake letter to make a really good point.
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Published: January 31, 2005, 8:50 am |
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