Perspective on the Fourth of July — the War in Afghanistan Continues — while American Television Covers Trivially Unreflective Ways to Celebrate what these Troops and their Predecessors Routinely Sacrificed their Lives for

04 July 2012

My daughter’s Army JAG boyfriend said it well last night — “a society apart”

On this Independence Day, our media’s triviality makes it is especially easy to forget the military people who are burdened with fighting the United States’ politically motivated, self-destructive wars.

Asking our troops to sacrifice their lives — and those of their unintended victims — on our unnecessary behalf is certainly not what the Declaration of Independence was intended to address.

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Perspective on the Fourth of July — the War in Afghanistan Continues — while American Television Covers Trivially Unreflective Ways to Celebrate what these Troops and their Predecessors Routinely Sacrificed their Lives for