On a Yahoo! Group in which I participate, one of the members posted this link today to a slideshow that he called "a tribute to our armed forces." His note was entitled "No matter if you're a liberal or a conservative..."
Maybe it just hit me at the wrong moment. My more considered reaction was that it isn't so much a tribute to soldiers as a glorification of war. And a ham-handed propaganda attempt to equate Bush's Folly in Iraq to the United Nations cause in the Second World War. (Yes, the Allied side was officially called "the United Nations.") I also think it's more maudlin than a funeral-home fan.
My immediate reaction was longer and went pretty much like this: Gosh, isn't war romantic? You can go off to foreign lands and cuddle cute little foreign babies.
And if you die - occasionally it happens - everyone will remember you as a hero.
But you won't see any current photos of the heroic dead arriving home. Because the President - who enjoyed pranching before the cameras last year in his flight suit - has barred any press coverage of those arrivals home.
He's also managed so far to avoid attending any funerals of those heroes he sent off to their deaths based on lies about non-existent "weapons of mass destruction."
If you're serving in the Iraqi hell-hole, you can be glad that Congress blocked Bush's proposal to cut your combat pay.
If you manage to come back alive, you can also be glad that Congress has so far blocked the cuts in veterans benefits that Bush wanted.
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