>>>The idea that Obama or any politician would visit a warzone and then risk "blowing off" military personnel, in election year, is like saying that a politician would refuse to take the baby and smile for the camera. I don't know why an officer apparently sent his family such a sensational message signed with his full rank and unit...
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>>You have been in a situation, I'm sure, where you wrote home. You know that the most important information they want from you is your full name and rank within the organization, which they otherwise wouldn't know unless you repeat that in every message.
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>What is it with you? Always pointing out the obvious! Haven't you noticed no one likes that around here? :o) ROFL... :o) I know that I always included all of that when I wrote home (ha ha ha! NOT!)
Kind of like on soap operas when somebody walks into the room and a character says, "Why it's Jessica, the evil twin of my ex wife who was kidnapped by terrorists in Parador and has been in a coma for two years and doesn't know her mother is carrying the love-child of the Senator who is secretly and agent of a government who ... " <g>
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.
