Right now, there are 18 and 19 year old Americans who, instead of worrying about homework or plane tickets for spring break, are standing around in a foreign city, guns in hand, worrying about being shot at and killed.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and countless inconceivably excruciating external injuries affect tens of thousands of our soldiers in Iraq. The heroism of our dead soldiers is unanimously praised, but those who survive their ordeal get something far short of a hero's welcome when they return.
Shakespeare's Sister and Litbrit (at Ezra Klein's blog) detail it more eloquently than I possibly could.
Our country and our society have a true sickness. We should never forgive ourselves for allowing this awful war in the first place, but to vote for tax cut after tax cut while condemning our children to their hellish existence requires a cruel indifference horrifying to contemplate.
Meanwhile, our elected representatives in both the House and Senate take a week off for President's day.
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Let's return to a theme
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