The Quick and the Dead

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“Our system can stand a whole string of bad presidents. It has in the past and will in the future.” - Harry Truman

By: Bridget Gibson - 03/27/04

It is interesting that many news organizations have begun reporting a significantly smaller number of U.S. military fatalities in Iraq lately.

Last week, while reporting the death of two soldiers, the article went on to state that 393 soldiers had lost their lives since the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003. The number of U.S. military who have died in Iraq as of March 26, 2004, is 590.

The intentional erasure of almost 200 of our sons and daughters left me gasping for breath. In order to honor and support our military, how can we now discount their lives and deaths entirely? The blatant lies have now gone beyond ridiculous to stunningly demonic.

With each day’s report of one or two or ten new deaths, my heart breaks for the families that will never absorb the loss – the void that nothing can fill, no medals or plaques or pieces of paper – magnified by the children not born to carry on the bravest of our country’s families’ tradition of service.

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