3,494..

American men and women, heroes all, as of today only and not inclusive of the other innocent lives lost. Beautiful and each with a life and someone who loved him or her. 3,494 all dead, because they were told there was something to be feared in the deserts of Iraq. Weapons of destruction on a massive scale. The weapons were never found, but those precious people were lost forever. The weapons were fiction, but not the lives and I wanted to stop and think of them. I bear so much of the responsibility for helping to elect the man who's responsible. I'm so sorry. 3,494. What a waste. And a shame and a pox on our history. It's so very unAmerican and unGodly, why don't more Baptist ministers speak out against it? 3,494 Americans' blood spilled in a foreign place because they wanted to protect you and me and Keegan and Tom and Andy and Vicki and aunt WhatsHerName.

The media is consumed by a rich white girl in Los Angeles and who will win TV talent shows and life goes on for all of us, except for Bill Newman and Timothy B. Cole jr. and Robert Liggett and 3,491 other boys and girls and men and women and countless broken hearts of dads and moms and sisters and partners and little kids who will ask why. Be still my aching heart.

Posted by JD on June 12, 2007 10:31 AM