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November 19, 2004
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Every weekday night I watch the PBS News Hour, and at the end of the hour they do a silent memorial for soldiers killed in Iraq whose names are newly released. It's hard to sit and watch the pictures of these young kids, and know their promise is ended. To me they are very young — occasionally in their 30s, mostly young 20s, a few in their 'teens.
Usually there are several, sometimes a dozen. Right after the election there was one night with 20 — the most I'd seen — and I figured the administration had been holding back names since there had been few in the days before. Right after that it went back to six or seven. A small trickle of dead children.
Tonight they had 22. And I want to gouge my eyes out, or my brain, or anything to take away the knowledge that these kids died in Fallujah, and the war rolls on unheeding.
Posted by jnfr at November 19, 2004 06:53 PM