As someone not directly exposed to events in the US currently, I’m forced to ask:
Why is this being written about as if it were news?
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Sarah the Penguin has started another weblog, and in her second post she has reminded me of an image from 14 years ago that still haunts me.
It was a photo of a soldier in a helicopter, crying, because he has learned of the death of one of his buddies in the 1991 Gulf War.
Fourteen years, and I cannot forget that image of sadness and loss.
We should not forget those deaths that come across as mere statistics in the evening news, “Another 5 die in Iraq”.
Each and every one of these lives cut short have those who mourn for them, those who cry for them.
We can not forget.
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Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance-
—Lazarus Long
