60http://blog.maryhwebb13.comThu, 23 Feb 2012 03:14:56 GMTThu, 23 Feb 2012 03:14:56 GMTen maryhwebb13@yahoo.comnohttp://blog.maryhwebb13.com/2006/11/28/who-is-the-enemy.aspx?ref=rssMaryHWebb&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;WHO IS THE ENEMY?<BR><BR><BR><BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I go to meet my friend for coffee.&nbsp; Her ancestors come from Japan (a former enemy of ours).&nbsp; She asks me<BR>about another friend, a young woman from Germany (another former enemy of ours) who is here to study librarianship.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On Thanksgiving, I take our young friend from Germany several places--first to my friend who comes from Turkey (a former enemy of my Armenian daughter by marriage.&nbsp; My friend from Turkey is married to a man from Iran (a former enemy of ours).&nbsp; His brother was killed by a bomb from Iraq (a former enemy of theirs and a present enemy of ours).<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Afterwards, on that same Thanksgiving day, we go to another friend's house where the young woman from Germany meets my stepdaughter whi is Jewish and therefore a former enemy of hers.&nbsp; My stepdaughter is married to a West-African man from Cabo Verde, and he and his mother are with us.&nbsp; Some of the ancestors of the friends whom we are visiting are Portuguese (and therefore former enemies of the Cape Verdeans who were colonized by them).&nbsp; My stepdaughter and son-in-law's baby is half-African and half-Jewish and therefore has former and perhaps present enemies all over the world.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My boyfriend whom I see the next day is African-American, and it is entirely possible that some of his ancestors were enslaved by some of mine making them enemies of each other.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And the land underneath us rumbles in anticipation of a great earthquake, for we who are of European descent stole the land from the Natives whom many of us are also partially descended from, and so we are former or present enemies of theirs and of ourselves.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On a lonely shore in an unidentified country, a two year old breaks free from his mother and runs along the sand.&nbsp; A soldier raises his gun and kills him seeing in&nbsp; him a future potential enemy.<BR><BR><BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mary H. Webb<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;12-16-97http://blog.maryhwebb13.com/2006/11/28/who-is-the-enemy.aspx#Commentsfff436c2-77d5-4015-8006-1df2ca3845cfWed, 29 Nov 2006 07:04:00 GMT