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My roomate, the Firekeeper, brought up the most interesting observation this evening, that being all these troops will be arriving home to no jobs. Yes, welcome home sons and daughters, many of you can expect to spend your days idling in relief lines. After your participation in the clash of civilizations, surely you are wondering what glory awaits you in the new Bernie Madoff economy, the suckling AIGs bailout economy, the crash and collapse economy, the end of days economy and however else the economy as of late is bleached. I would love to tell you everyone will be eager to employ you, and certainly some will, just not in the way you were hoping. Nor do we know if your memory of what once was will ever again be anything remotely resembling what you imagined it to be while you were away. I can tell you only that what you will see is what you will get, a.k.a. wysiwyg. But with such training as you have no doubt received, law enforcement, corporate prisons or merc outfits could very well be interested. Did you start out from nothing, expecting to see some action, pay for college perhaps and insure your medical needs would be met post haste? Well, did you ever get that recruitment bonus? What you are really going to be doing when you come home, if you still have a home, is facing the same situation the whole country is facing along with the majority of our global fellows. Its not a pretty picture. Its a huge watercolor landscape melting under the weight of karma. While you've been on the frontlines, the rug was sold out from beneath our feet, the food chain was poisoned and the future revised to exclude everyone except a mere few prepared to ride it out in underground bunkers until the planet cools down enough to support life again, just how long that could be is anybody's guess. Ten million years? And you thought you'd seen it all? Its the prolonged agony of resource depletion that is working against a return to something that wasn't all that healthy to begin with. We're just beginning the descent on the downside of the bell curve simultaneous to a slight increase in temperature. But the problem with descending is its likeness to sliding downhill on a rollercoaster. One moment you are teetering at the top of the world and the next, there it goes. In the likely event you are suffering from PTSD, you'll have lots of company since the same trauma is increasingly affecting everyone else each day and each long, sleepless night. Some more than others, some not at all, most blame it on anything handy to lessen the pain thinking erroneously and selfishly that by not acknowledging the situation, it is not happening or worse, it can be put off into the distant future that does not specifically concern them.

UPDATE 03.03.09: Here is the key, its up to you to open the door and walk into the light. Go in Grace. Everything Out of Control is Under Control