Gone but not forgotten: fallen heroes from our military.
With news that we are just one month from having our engagement in Afghanistan run longer than our stay in Vietnam helping to prove Brecht's Mother Courage right about how massive military actions become big business all in its own right, we are remiss if we don't pause to thank those active military members flung far across the world and the families they leave behind that worry about them; those that didn't make it back from their deployments and the families they left behind that have the comfort of knowing their loved ones made the ultimate sacrifice and those that returned in ways not quite whole and the families that must support them.
The nearly 5500 killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, you are missed.
AMERICA's LONGEST WAR:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-05-27-longest-war-afghanistan_N.htm
SEARCH WAR CASUALTIES TO PUT FACES TO NAMES AND NUMBERS:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/casualties.htm
HAVEN'T HEARD OF MOTHER COURAGE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Courage_and_Her_Children
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