Editorial
Front Page - Friday, November 13, 2009
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Thank you
Bill James
It is 8:07 Monday night. My deadline for this column has been cut by the celebration of Veteran’s Day. I started writing my column 30 minutes ago and just lost it.
I am writing the column in an e-mail since the computer I am on does not have Word-Perfect. I hate Word.
Anyway, I did something and AOL turned off and I lost what I was writing. It was very good. It was intellectually well written. The grammar was perfect and punctuation was flawless. Now it is gone.
I am thereby forced to summarize my thoughts in a much more crude but concise manner. You will get the point without having to wonder what I am really talking about. So, here
we go.
Over 5,200 lives have been lost since we went to war in the Middle East. We are about to send more troops there. Most people, including myself, don’t know what it is going to take to get all of our troops home. If our leaders know, they don’t
seem in too much a hurry to share it with us.
The ribbons are worn, but the country is numb to the sacrifices we are making toward a goal we cannot describe. We are losing the greatest generation at a great pace. They take with them history that, while documented, is in many ways lost forever.
Last night, I heard Andy Rooney talk about the need for a day without war and how that would be something to celebrate. He wasn’t “dissing” Veteran’s Day — just the opposite. It is the sacrifices made by veterans that bring peace to our world. Bluntly, it is their blood that lubricates our freedoms. They are precious and need not be wasted by chasing a result not properly defined. We have got to get a plan.
To every man and woman who wears or who has worn a uniform in the defense of this country, the CHEAP SEATS thanks you.
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