Thursday, June 16, 2005
Compare and Contrast
Some people use every American death in Iraq as an excuse to pump a (generally wrong) political agenda. Warriors like Dadmanly reflect and respect the dead as they should be respected.
I have never fully understood the devotion expressed by survivors of past wars and conflicts. I must have thought somehow that such attachment of sentiment had to have something to do with something unique about the individuals or the units, or even the war. The Greatest Generation was great, wasn't it, because of the depth of their sacrifice or magnitude of their struggle or the great consequence of their triumph?Be very thankful that we have men like Dadmanly and his colleagues defending us, the alternative is too diifcult to contemplate. Please send your prayers to God on behalf of him and other people in that area. They need all they can get.
I don't think that anymore. I think I now understand the bond that veterans speak of, the bond of common experience, of course, but a bond of common sacrifice and loss as well. We have shed blood here. We leave a piece of the whole here. Innocence lost, some scarring in a place that had for most of us not known wound before.
