For me these days, a bad day is finding out about an $800 transmission bill on the car we bought last year. The poor civilians living in southern Lebanon and northern Israel would probably cut off a limb right now to have a day that good. Take a look at these home movies from hell to get a sense of what it's like to live in a place where, at any moment, something loaded with shrapnel and explosives could fall from the sky and destroy all your nice deck furniture, plus the deck, plus maybe somebody you love. Not to mention the gas station you visit once a week.
The ordinariness is what's so chilling. It reminds me of the most frightening quote I've ever heard, from Leon Trotsky: "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
Pray, people.