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[q]Elmo's Dad Gets Sent to Iraq
Posted by Cole Gamble
Sesame Workshop, the people behind Sesame Street, is helping military families with young children cope with the deployment, redeployment and homecoming of their mommies and daddies. Would you like to see something a little surreal this morning? How about watch a music video in which Elmo’s dad tells Elmo he’s being shipped off to Iraq?
[q]I must be a little behind, I didn't know Elmo had a dad and that his dad knew how to really rock the goatee/track suit combo Oh, and apparently he's southern? Kidding aside, I think this is a wonderful thing Sesame Street is doing. It’s the kind of thing they were created for. The program is called Talk, Listen, Connect and if you are a family with young kids and a loved one at war, you may want to check out this kit at www.sesameworkshop.org/tlc/. There is information and advice for both the child and the parent in dealing with this difficult time.[/q]
What depresses me is that this program is still needed. The reality for military familes is that mommies and daddies go to war, they come home from war, but then they get sent back to Iraq again. It’s just tragic. Once the kid has seen the video when mommy went off to Iraq the first time, what are we supposed to do when mommy goes back to Iraq a second or third time? Show them the video again? Some day this war will end and it will be up to families, not politicians, to pick up the pieces.[/q]
i mean this not to mock. it actually makes me very, very sad. i hope Elmo's father isn't killed, and comes back with all his limbs and benefits, especially now that Bush thinks the surge has been such a smashing success that the July 2008 troop drawbacks are unnecessary.
it's surreal, but this is the real. there's a child watching this, nodding, and partially understanding, and feeling very, very sad right now.
just remember, soldiers are for fighting, and for running out the clock in a political year.
Posted by Cole Gamble
Sesame Workshop, the people behind Sesame Street, is helping military families with young children cope with the deployment, redeployment and homecoming of their mommies and daddies. Would you like to see something a little surreal this morning? How about watch a music video in which Elmo’s dad tells Elmo he’s being shipped off to Iraq?
[q]I must be a little behind, I didn't know Elmo had a dad and that his dad knew how to really rock the goatee/track suit combo Oh, and apparently he's southern? Kidding aside, I think this is a wonderful thing Sesame Street is doing. It’s the kind of thing they were created for. The program is called Talk, Listen, Connect and if you are a family with young kids and a loved one at war, you may want to check out this kit at www.sesameworkshop.org/tlc/. There is information and advice for both the child and the parent in dealing with this difficult time.[/q]
What depresses me is that this program is still needed. The reality for military familes is that mommies and daddies go to war, they come home from war, but then they get sent back to Iraq again. It’s just tragic. Once the kid has seen the video when mommy went off to Iraq the first time, what are we supposed to do when mommy goes back to Iraq a second or third time? Show them the video again? Some day this war will end and it will be up to families, not politicians, to pick up the pieces.[/q]
i mean this not to mock. it actually makes me very, very sad. i hope Elmo's father isn't killed, and comes back with all his limbs and benefits, especially now that Bush thinks the surge has been such a smashing success that the July 2008 troop drawbacks are unnecessary.
it's surreal, but this is the real. there's a child watching this, nodding, and partially understanding, and feeling very, very sad right now.
just remember, soldiers are for fighting, and for running out the clock in a political year.