Jim Bush

                 

Jim Bush is a 61 year old, Vietnam-era veteran, currently living in Katy,Texas. He was raised in a military family. His father received the Silver Star for directing troops while under air attack at Clark Field in the Phillipines, survived the Bataan Death March, and spent three and a half years in a Japanese POW camp. He also received the Purple Heart for wounds received while a POW. Jim served as an army photographer in Okinawa and Korea. In 1987 he traveled to the war zones of Nicaragua with a veteran's group dedicated to stopping the Contra War.

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106 Articles, 3 Quick Links, 21 Comments, 35 Diaries, 0 Polls

106 Articles

Sunday, July 20, 2008
Generation What?
A response to Generation Kill, no matter what the show is trying to say, or not.

Monday, June 9, 2008
Stuck In Stupid
How to be Unstuck from Stupid.

Thursday, May 22, 2008
We Are The Empire
(1 comments) About arrogance and moral turpitude.

Friday, May 16, 2008
The Antidote Is Obama!
(1 comments) The antidote to our dilema.

Saturday, April 26, 2008
We All Have Dreams
(1 comments) About the election, the United States, and the state of the world.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
A Young Black Man
Concerning infatuation versus pragmatism.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
2008
The new year.

Sunday, November 25, 2007
Noise
(2 comments) bout noise.

Sunday, October 28, 2007
The Terror Is Us
(3 comments) What Terror is.

Sunday, September 30, 2007
In Five Years...A Whine (Another Kind Of Prediction)

Friday, September 28, 2007
He's Not Coming Back
(14 comments)

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Freedom Walkers And Freedom Talkers
About freedom.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
It Takes A Shit-load Of Compassion
(1 comments) About what it takes.

Monday, September 3, 2007
You May Not Understand Why (To the troops)
A message.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Do You Get The Feeling?
(2 comments) About feelings.

Sunday, August 5, 2007
To The Nexus
About the body politic.

Thursday, August 2, 2007
Today, I Hate
About hate.

Monday, July 30, 2007
There Is No George Bush
(1 comments) On the existance of George Bush.

Sunday, July 29, 2007
There Is No Bin Laden
(3 comments) About the existance of Osama bin Laden.

Sunday, July 22, 2007
The Shallow End
The dark side of living in the suburbs of Houston.

Thursday, July 19, 2007
Living In God's Image
(3 comments) About who we are.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
I Guess, I No Longer Hate Love
(1 comments) On love, hate, and the war.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Do You Think?
(4 comments) Possibilites?

Sunday, July 15, 2007
These Crimes (Re-visited)
(5 comments) If the shoe fits.

Saturday, July 14, 2007
Pathetic
(1 comments) Iraq War

Thursday, July 12, 2007
King George
About King George and Humpty Dumpty.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
They Wouldn't Be Fighting At All
(3 comments) On the stupidity of war.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Mythologies
God, I hate mythologies.

Sunday, July 8, 2007
Diary 2050 ( Re-submitted for the 4th of July and Live Earth.)
A story, a fantasy, a prophesy, of what could be.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
That Place Where Black Lips And Blue Sky Meet
It's the same with every war.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007
"It Just Is"
God who?

Tuesday, June 26, 2007
I Stand In Solidarity (re-visited)
We must come back to the simple truth: That Guantanamo Prison is a crime against humanity.

Sunday, June 24, 2007
Crossroad Bridge #3
(2 comments) What can one do?

Thursday, June 21, 2007
"They Can Love"
On honoring or dishonoring life's gifts.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Peace
(2 comments) Why work for peace?

Monday, June 18, 2007
Blind Men, Jousting With Shadows
About Blind Men,Jousting With Shadows.

Monday, June 18, 2007
Alone, Together
(1 comments) On travel and destinations.

Friday, June 8, 2007
I Open Up Today
On ultimate destinations.

Thursday, June 7, 2007
It Is Finished (Dream 2)
(1 comments) On the price we pay.

Monday, June 4, 2007
Our Boys And Girls, And Men And Women
(1 comments) About our boys and girls and men and women in Iraq.

Sunday, June 3, 2007
Tree Silhouettes
About last chores.

Saturday, June 2, 2007
Who Will Get In The Crops?
(2 comments) Why we can't win.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
What Do I Care? (Dedicated, in sympathy, to Cindy Sheehan)
(2 comments) Caring about the war.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Avantara
On Memorial Day

Thursday, May 17, 2007
Muqtada

Saturday, May 5, 2007
Young, Dumb, And Numb

Friday, April 20, 2007
I Walk Fine
(1 comments) Walking

Monday, April 9, 2007
A Bundle full of Death
War casualties.

Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Dispatch from: Katy, Texas
The good Bush weighs in with another poem from the heartland.

Friday, August 11, 2006
The Third Way

Thursday, August 10, 2006
The Upward Evolutionary Arc
(1 comments) poem

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
One Bye One

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Can You Feel It?

Friday, July 14, 2006
Have We Failed...?
poem

Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Beasts Of War
Poem

Friday, July 7, 2006
These Are The Ways To be

Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Try Being Without Trying
poem

Tuesday, July 4, 2006
In Congress, July 4, 1776

Friday, June 30, 2006
Nine Out Of Ten Casusalties Of War...

Thursday, June 29, 2006
"That's It Then!"
(1 comments)

Saturday, June 24, 2006
Blindfold!

Saturday, June 24, 2006
Ehren Watada -- Cowardice or Courage?
(2 comments) I received this in response to an article I sent out about Ehren Watada. The army officer who has refused to ship-out to Iraq with his unit:

Saturday, June 17, 2006
Bullies Are Really Cowards

Friday, June 16, 2006
Will You Stand With Me?

Thursday, June 15, 2006
From That Cruel, Ugly, And Evil Place:

Sunday, June 11, 2006
Just As Red

Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Abusing And Killing Prisoners And Civilians, And The Conscience Of A Nation
(4 comments)

Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Haditha!

Tuesday, June 6, 2006
The Mass Production Of Fear

Monday, May 29, 2006
It's A Tight Squeeze

Sunday, May 21, 2006
"All You Need Is Love"

Sunday, May 21, 2006
I Bite The Bullet

Friday, May 12, 2006
They're Listening

Thursday, May 11, 2006
Time And War

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Howler Monkeys (To Allen Ginsberg)

Friday, May 5, 2006
Big Oil

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
The Jinn

Tuesday, May 2, 2006
The Power Of The Throne

Monday, May 1, 2006
Thinking Out Loud

Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Two Sides Of The American Coin... (The beginning of the "War on Terror" remembered)

Saturday, April 22, 2006
From A Mother's Heart
Dedicated to Cindy Sheehan

Friday, April 21, 2006
The Suicide Bomber

Thursday, April 20, 2006
The Support Of Loved Ones

Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Lo and Behold!

Sunday, April 16, 2006
A Gift

Friday, April 14, 2006
We're Marching Now!
a poem

Wednesday, April 12, 2006
"I Love You"
To the victims and loved ones of 9/11.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Response to a veteran...
(1 comments) Just what are we fighting for? One does not relinquish one's moral obligations to humanity at large because of one's training or the orders one is given.

Monday, April 10, 2006
We Are The Base-line

Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Our Loaves And Fishes

Sunday, March 26, 2006
"ok"
(1 comments) He's down in the corner of the room now There's blood and vomit running down the front of his T-shirt His boxer shorts are pulled down around his knees A urine puddle circles the area around his butt He's mumbling something about "This god damned war!"

Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Watch Yourself!

Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Start Now! (To the American People)
(1 comments)

Monday, March 20, 2006
Listen To The Sound
a poem

Saturday, March 18, 2006
How Does One Tell Them?

Wednesday, March 15, 2006
War Wounds

Wednesday, March 15, 2006
A Dark Shadow

Sunday, March 12, 2006
How Many?
a poem dedicated to peaceworker, Tom Fox, found murdered in Iraq.

Saturday, March 11, 2006
Each Drop

Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Osama, Where Are You?
(1 comments)

Sunday, March 5, 2006
I Joined Up!
(1 comments)

Sunday, March 5, 2006
The Bodies Under The Floor

Sunday, March 5, 2006
In Some Amazing Way

Sunday, March 5, 2006
How Could Yeats Have Known?

Sunday, March 5, 2006
The Truth Is Not Hidden
Poetry

Saturday, February 18, 2006
These Crimes...
Arts

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