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 For Young, the reason why the American public seems largely indifferent to anti-war efforts is simple. "The reason people are more concerned with what's going on in their daily live is, there lacks a simple five-letter word in our daily existence from the government, and that's 'draft'," he says. "The American people [are] not feeling the sting and the sacrifice of the war. To them it's just a number crawling across the bottom of the screen on a 24-hour news channel while they're watching a story about Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan or whoever. And if they're not paying attention to the words at the bottom of the screen, they'll probably miss it and not even know about the five soldiers that died. It's just tough to get through to the people who aren't having to face the sacrifice on a daily basis." Our time is up, but before we finish the interview, Young relates an anecdote about a former roommate friend of his who was also injured and sent to a veterans hospital in San Antonio. It's pretty funny, at least in a 1984 sort of way. "It was around Easter weekend, and the president and his gang, his group, were all down at the ranch. And he decided to set up, as a photo op, a trip to an army hospital to hand out some Purple Hearts. So that day, Secret Service came through and said that the President was going to be visiting but he wasn't going to be visiting that floor. And I guess plans changed. "The nursing staff came around to all the patients on that floor with an extra dose of painkillers. And so my former roommate has a picture of the president handing him a purple heart, and he looks extremely happy, to say the least. So if you're prone to conspiracy theories, the extra dose of pain medication was given not only to put the soldiers in a sleepy sort of mindset so they wouldn't ask any searing questions, but also for any photo opportunities that may arise. Those soldiers look very happy to meet the president." |
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