Young minds will be paying attention. Through whatever means they learn about this, whether it's live now or after the fact, they will think for themselves and truly ponder the motivations for and repercussions of what's unfolding in the Middle East. That, I have faith in
23 years ago, I came home titalated after a youthful courtship with my high school sweetheart at the age of 15. I turned on the TV, and was met with the first the prelude, then the initiating of a gruesome, devastating and unprovoked attack on another nation.
I watched in awe, realizing for the first time that the world did not operate on a system of justice and moral authority. I stayed up all night taking it all in, watching bombs fall all across Baghdad, with American flags animations and war drums hammering the propaganda home.