2000

"We talk about honoring the troops. How about we honor them by giving a damn when their killed? Our kids are dying over there and this country, the people, the media, we all chug along like nothing is wrong. We'll spend a month obsessing about Terry Shivo, but dare we show a body of a fallen soldier. The most watched cable news station will spend an hour a night on a missing girl in Aruba, but god forbid we pay any attention when kids are killed in action.

We've had 2000 American trees fall in that forest over there and we don't even know it, not really. But, maybe we don't want to know about our children dying so, lucky for us this war isn't really being televised. We're not seeing images of soldiers dying in the arms of their comrades, being blown apart in the streets of Bagdad. But they are, by the thousands and all the American public wants to concern itself with is weather Brad and Angelina really are a couple. At least with Vietnam we all watched and we all got angry.

We have a people and a goverment in denial. We currently have no strategy to fight this war, no time table for gettting out, some of the troops could be extended 20+ years. Their mothers and fathers have to spring for body armor because the Army doesn't and their getting killed. And we as a nation in denial are letting them. We simply don't seem to care."

This was quoted from a monalog in an episode of Boston Legal, Nov. 1, 2005. It just occured to me that not only do I agree with everything he said, but I was guilty of the same denial of which he spoke. Something to think about.