Let us now praise: "a new generation of fallen leaders.

[stilltrucking]

At our last national photo op, Memorial Day, the president - who generally avoids funerals and prevents photos of the coffins at Dover Air Force Base - praised "a new generation of fallen leaders."

Actually, they're not fallen leaders. They're dead.

Therefore, they can't lead. They're the rare Americans, along with their families, making sacrifices for this war.

http://www.theolympian.com/opinion/story/161339.html

[bohonato]

http://www.marriedtothesea.com

[stilltrucking]

'"You know - we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "My God, my God - " I said to myself, "it's the Children's Crusade."' (from Slaughterhouse Five)

[jimboloco]

laid out on the tarmak
corrugated metal bed
body bags smelling of death
crumpled in choppers
collided mid-air
buy two more
bell helicopters
pristine buildings
in suburbia
jobs and profits
and kids sacrificed
unseen and forgotten
not part of the equation

[stilltrucking]

The end of an empire is messy at best
And this empire is ending
Like all the rest
Like the Spanish Armada adrift on the sea
We’re adrift in the land of the brave
And the home of the free

Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

A Few Words In Defense of Our Country

Randy Newman