This morning's Google logo features a heartwarming drawing by Sabrina Brady called "Coming Home".
I can't imagine what this feels like for a kid - being reunited with a parent who has been in harm's way for months and months.
But it's getting to the point where you can't go to a football or baseball game without seeing an orchestrated surprise reunion between a soldier/sailor/airman and his family. These things are great. But they distract us from the bigger issue.
We have enough Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine and Coast Guard personnel on active duty to put a soldier, sailor, pilot, marine or coast-guarder at every 20 feet of the U.S.'s borders. I figured it out the other day. Every 20 feet.
On the other hand, we have Secretary's Of State like John Kerry, She Whose Name Is Not Spoke, Condi Rice and Colin Powell wandering the earth, sticking our noses into other people's bidness, drumming up more and more business for Lockheed and General Dynamics.
Do you think that maybe, just maybe, fewer soldiers would experience tearful reunions if we kept John Kerry at his house for a couple of years?
I can't imagine what this feels like for a kid - being reunited with a parent who has been in harm's way for months and months.
But it's getting to the point where you can't go to a football or baseball game without seeing an orchestrated surprise reunion between a soldier/sailor/airman and his family. These things are great. But they distract us from the bigger issue.
We have enough Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine and Coast Guard personnel on active duty to put a soldier, sailor, pilot, marine or coast-guarder at every 20 feet of the U.S.'s borders. I figured it out the other day. Every 20 feet.
On the other hand, we have Secretary's Of State like John Kerry, She Whose Name Is Not Spoke, Condi Rice and Colin Powell wandering the earth, sticking our noses into other people's bidness, drumming up more and more business for Lockheed and General Dynamics.
Do you think that maybe, just maybe, fewer soldiers would experience tearful reunions if we kept John Kerry at his house for a couple of years?
2 comments:
Not to correct you, but I think it is John F'ing Kerry.
John Kerry walks into a bar. And the bartender says "Hey, Buddy! Why the long face??"
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