Taking Sides

Ted Turner and CNN are confused about which, if any side they're on. But the world isn't gray in certain areas. When you are fighting for your life, you are either for or against, there is no middle ground.

I missed the joke. You must forgive me, for there just is not a lot of room in my life for even good jokes--and there is absolutely no room for "botched jokes"--when the subject of the joke is my son who was killed in Iraq.

Also, the Boston Herald Has a column up.

“I mean, each of those coffins contained the remains of someone who made the ultimate sacrifice,” he said. “And each time, I’d ask myself, ‘What have I done?’ ”

And a news story to go with it.

For whatever reason, the 32-year-old Marine left them unlocked that scorching June day in Fallujah. And when the bomb exploded, the impact threw him from the vehicle, blowing off his right foot, shattering his right elbow and almost tearing off his left leg.

“Am I bitter? No,” said Brown, a soft-spoken reservist from Dorchester who flew in from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., to attend a regimental ball tomorrow where he will be honored. “The way I look at it is: Don’t look at me like a fool because I got blown up. Yeah, I served. What did you do?”

That so many Americans appear to have trouble understanding one must pick a side sometimes and stick to your guns is not America's finest moment. Thank God there are enough to take up the fight and to hell with those Americans so unable to truly support them, whatever their number.

Comments

[Sadly, No! Research Labs]

Man, this place isn't happening today. I'm'unna go bother Confederate Yankee for awhile.

[Phoenix]

The article by Ronald R. Griffin in the WSJ is excellent. The other two made me weepy but proud.

I read things like this and the loathing for Kerry and his ilk grows exponentially.