<DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> > but the solemn joy thousands of Americans seem to be taking in burying their 18-year-olds, their children home via body bag and they're GLAD! It makes them happy, it makes them proud, something I find so profoundly tragic and wasteful it brings tears to my eyes. It brings home the point, I suppose, that most Americans really do believe this is a good, just war, worth expending their kids for * * * , you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: <LANG l><F i>Dulce et decorum est<F r> <F I>Pro patria mori.<F r><LANG e> Wilfred Owen The Latin tag means: Sweet and proper it is to die for one's country. It _is_ strange, and yet I think it is the deaths that in fact vindicate the war, that show them that that it was worth it, make it impossible to recoinsider, you can't go back now; that would dishonor the dead. They cannot have died for nothing or worse for something wicked. jks</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/search/mailsig/*http://search.yahoo.com">The New Yahoo! Search</a> - Faster. Easier. Bingo.