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I was gonna say that Johnny Got His Gun and Triage were sort of the same type of enterprise and appealed to certain people in the same kind of way. For those that paid attention they were deeply affected by each work and each artist had something very powerful they wanted to say about something very specific.

The fact that there is a link between the film and a song from Triage through a specific memory for you is very interesting to me but also thinking of what you are saying exactly, obviously very sad due to what happened to Rob and what that film and song are about.

What's really difficult is I feel a sense of guilt for liking the song and the film because of what had to happen to create either one of them. I guess the best way to look at it are the debts are never paid they just are and we just are. It's like to say I'm thankful to you for writing the song would be inappropriate due to what it took to birth it. A person could never be thankful for such a thing but in a way we share the debt...not the whole thing there are parts for only you to carry and that's the nature of the debt but it's the knowing we are not alone in shouldering the load and that we share a burden, at least for me, that make it easier to carry our debts. So the song or the film are the good that came of the debt because either one could, has the possibility of, creating the realization in somebody somewhere that these are OUR debts. I hope that made some sense.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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