Though many on the Adriana might not have said that they were fleeing “war,” it’s hard to disentangle the U.S.’s war on terror from the reasons so many of them made their journeys.
journey, but not hundreds of migrants determined to better their families’ lives, even if they had to risk life itself to reach European shores? Part of the answer, I suspect, lies in the very different reasons those two groups of travelers set out on their journeys and the kinds of things we value in a world long shaped by Western military power.
I’m a Navy spouse and my family, which includes my partner, our two young kids, and various pets, has been moving from one military installation to another over the past decade. In the various communities where we’ve lived, during gatherings with new friends and extended family, the overwhelming interest in my spouse’s career is obvious.
Typical questions have included: “What’s a submarine’s hull made out of?” “How deep can you go?” “What’s the plan if you sink?” “What kind of camo do you wear?” And an unforgettable comment from one of our kids: “That blue camo makes you guys look like blueberries. Do you really want to hide if you fall in the water? What if you need to be rescued?”
Meanwhile, my career as a therapist for military and refugee communities and as a co-founder of Brown University’s, which might offer a strange antiwar complement to my spouse’s world, seldom even makes it into the conversation. Aside from the power and mystery our military evokes with its fancy equipment, I think many Americans love to express interest in it because it seems like theof civic virtue at a time when otherwise we can agree on ever less. In fact, after 20 years of America’s war on terror in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, references to our military are remarkably widespread .
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