I found this image (and the essay attached to it) by following a blog link from the comments section of a Newsweek story on the Monica Goodling Testimony. The points made in the essay are not exactly new, but that doesn't make them any less worthy of consideration--particularly on a day like today. A more concise cautionnary note is struck in today's NYT column by Paul Krugman (reprinted at http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052807D.shtml).There's a thin line between genuine respect for those who have given their lives in military service and manipulating that respect into a public-relations tool on behalf of those institutions that just keep creating more 'honored dead'. In times of war, that line is frequently blurred beyond recognition.
By all means, let us honor those who have sacrificed their lives for what they believed to be the common good. But let us also not fail to hold accountable those responsible for the occasion of that sacrifice.
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