To: KLP who wrote (323783 ) 9/11/2009 6:45:01 PM From: TimF Respond to The start of the Gulf War didn't cause the shock and anger that 9/11 caused but other than that (which sounds strange to say because they where such a big part of the my and most people's memory of 9/11), my memory of when the Gulf War started was somewhat similar. I guess in the feeling that a lot of people where going to die, and also the feeling that a serious mistake had been made by those that would now face the American military that they where totally unprepared for. At the time of the Gulf War, I didn't really remember the start of any war (I wasn't born yet when Vietnam started, and though I remember things that happened during the war, I didn't actually know about the war until years after it ended, Panama, Grenada, and such where too small). I expected there to be more casualties on both sides then turned out to be the case (even if not nearly as many for the US as some where predicting, at most about as much as the current war in Iraq, while I heard others make predictions similar to the losses in Vietnam). For some reason my mind pulled a phrase from the Battle Hymn of the Republic, as I thought that the "terrible swift sword" of American air power was about to be unleashed in full for the first time in my memory.
