I just returned from the DFW National Cemetery where I spoke with a family who lost their son in A-stan this past year. The mother, holding the rose presented after her son's name had been called during the reading of those lost on AD and interred at DFWNS during the past year (took about 15 minutes), said people have no idea what the military is about until they either serve or have someone serving.
Made me wonder who Airstrip One would be at war with next.
And so it goes...
Richard 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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