i just watched Green Day's music video for the song "wake me up when september ends". it is probably the best music video ever. it is more of a short film. it is beutiful, smart, touching and has a great message.

the song is actually about the lead singers fathers death. it is a beutiful song. the video, however, has this sort of anti-war message.

the viedo tells the story of a young couple so in love that they promise never to leave each other. then,the boyfriend joins the army and goes off to war (iraq presumably). he sees all the horrors that come with war. his girlfriend cries and sits missing and waiting. the video closes on the girlfriend looking like she has lost everything.

the message is that war destroys relationships and lives in a way that is unnatural. it doesn't have a anti-iraq or anti-troops message. it has a passifistic message (I am a quasi-passifist).

i was fighting back tears and couldn't help but think of coral and what she would be like if i went to war.

go to www.greenday.com to watch it yourself.

thanks for reading

Mark

P.S. Please don't jump on my back about not going to war. i can't join the services because of birth defects