Cursing At Patriotism

Why are women being recruited for war now? Is it because of feminist aspects like gender equality? Well if we knew it was going to be like this, we would have supported the previous status quo. I was going absurd. These men misinterpreted the meaning of the Me Too Movement. We never said we too want to go die and suffer in the war. No that was never it.

The Army Recruiter said," You won the chance to fight for your country young woman, we will come to get you tomorrow." My father added, " You are about to become a patriot my daughter, I'm proud of you." My mind told me, "You are about to go die for the interests of a small few, run away now."

I thought to myself the words of The Army Recruiter, " You won the chance to fight for your country young woman, we will come to get you tomorrow." She had just told me how I was going to be an honored soldier. If I was to die, I would die with dignity having laid down my life for my country. How this chance was only for a select few and maybe one day I would become just like her, an Army Recruiter. My mind intervened with the voice of Life and said, "Don't be stupid, you are about to dice with death."

The voice of Life continued, "Of what honor will you be if you are dead." The honor will be to the Army Recruiter for she will get the credit for fighting the war. She won't be on the battlefield dodging the bullets. She will be in the command center telling you how to dodge the bullets and fire them. You are a chess piece and she's part of the players that will live whilst you will not. If you survive the war you get a title without entitlement, she will get both and you will be worse off than you are now, run.

If your country walks out of this war has the losing side, The Army Recruiter at one hundred percent will have her life and you. Your life is not guaranteed. Weigh your options well, when you choose to side with The Army Recruiter and your father. Your two options are death at worst and disability at best. Coward!

My father is proud of me, I told myself and responded to the voice of Life in my mind. I am about to become something greater than myself and my father. I am about to become a patriot. The words of my father replayed in my mind, " You are about to become a patriot my daughter, I'm proud of you." My father's title is about to change. To become The Proud Father Of A Patriot. Let me make my father proud and fight this war to increase his dignity. After all, he never had any personal dignity besides that of being a father.       

The voice of Life rebuked me, "Is your life less than that of your father?" Can you not see the ones who love you are engineering and motivating for your slaughter? Woman, are you blind or just ignorant?

Life continued, "Why doesn't your father go fight the war?" His more able-bodied than you. I will tell you why. He's afraid of dying for a cause he will not enjoy the benefits of. He would rather see you die than enjoy the outcome of it. He will receive an entitlement and a title just like The Army Recruiter. You will be entitled to death and your title will be "Late". Runaway and flee now. Serving the interests of a few, I thought to myself.

It was going to be a brewing contestant between Patriotism and Life. I was to be the referee. So the battle began, with Patriotism firing the first canon.

The Voice of Patriotism began, " If you come out of this war alive and still able-bodied you will get all the things you will desire by just having the title of a female war veteran." Your life here at home is not worth being called life, you are better off dead. A chilling cord struck me. The battlefield will build you to become greater than you imagined. If you die on the battlefield, you die better than any other way you could have. Accept a patriotic life for it chose to accommodate you out of the many. How ironic.

Life responded with air strikes. "Run for your life." What you are now is better than what you will be on the battlefield, a corpse. Of what worth is death to those alive? Who has more to gain a dead man or the one living? Are you willing to choose a title you won't enjoy the fruits of? The title of "Late."

Choose life. You are not being a coward, you are choosing to live. Are you willing to go six feet deep so that other people can sup over it? Don't you ever think if you die you will resurrect? That will be the last of it. They are sugar-coating war. Run now! This was Life pushing its armed forces towards Patriotism.

Patriotism retaliated back against life. "You are about to become a coward." Run to where? Can you not be like the great men and women who laid down their lives before so that you can be what you are? So that you can become much greater than what you are. Your name gets to live in the nation's heart. Go feel the thrill of war, its intensity. It's celebrations and becomes a GODDESS amongst women. Fight for your country, go join the war tomorrow. This is patriotic propaganda, right?

Life's voice began suffocating at the hands of Patriotism. I could not hear its argument clearly, could only hear bits and pieces. It was saying, " If you go.......die.....never......come.....back......no.....life.....run......stupid....woman." Patriotism was

beginning to win me over.

I just had to think for myself without Patriotism and Life influencing my decision. Could I? I asked myself, " What do I want?" A dignified death and an ordinary death are still dead the same way. Poverty is poverty. Wealth is wealth. But how do I save my life? I asked myself.

Life got back in the battle using sarin gas as a weapon and responded, " Don't run away but get rid of those making you run away. " I asked, "How? "

Life responded, " There's a sharp long knife in the kitchen. Drive it through your father's chest. When The Army Recruiter comes for you tomorrow let her fate be the same too and then you run away." Before I carried out the assassination, I had a long conversation with myself.

Why are women being recruited for war now? Is it because of feminist aspects like gender equality? Well if we knew it was going to be like this, we would have supported the previous status quo. I was going absurd. These men misinterpreted the meaning of the Me Too Movement. We never said we too want to go die and suffer in the war. No that was never it.

What do I do now? What would you do if you were me? Is Patriotism death? After all, Life will die.