In our country political posturing about "our men and women in harm's way" has become a cynical game. It is good to be reminded that for many harm's way is real, there are things that matter, and their service means something. And they are often only remembered when it scores political points.
You're the real deal, Tracy, and you always keep me optimistic that this country must be doing something right if people like you think it is worth serving and protecting.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
