Green Day’s video for “Wake Me Up When September Ends” is pretty damn powerful. It gives an honest look at how hard the real, actual big decisions and consequences in life can be. It’s not trying to say that the war is right or wrong, or really anything about the war, but about the people in all wars and one slice of what they go through. My feelings about where this country should be fighting its wars are one thing, but my feelings of respect and sorrow for the people who do the fighting while I’m playing video games are profoundly stronger. In another wold I can easily see myself in that role, and though I wouldn’t say that regret is the right word for my feelings about not ever serving, it does put lots of things that I do into perspective.