This made me think

I have been critical of some of our military personnel here. Some of that was personal, you guys know you're hard on the local girls, especially when your girl back home dumped you. "Young and dumb and full of cum" ring a bell?

However, those of us who have waited for a phone call or a letter knowing that our loved ones might have had to make this leg of the trip know. We know the world is ungrateful for what our guys do. Of course, not all of the world is disinterested in what happens there, so our guys don't do it all alone.

It's the corruption, greed, waste and mismanagement of the big shots who tell our guys what to do that pisses me off to no end.

I was listening to this report on KPBS this morning on the power of surfing to heal ex-service members with serious injuries and I wondered if they have any problems with surfer turf. They didn't mention specific beaches, so I'm thinking the recovering service members are not using the same beaches. The surf's probably too rough and the competition gets ugly.

5:14 PM 3/9/2010
See if you can watch Body of War without tearing up. I couldn't, I cried. I got mad and wanted to pound W's face. I don't even want to know how many times Nathan has been deployed or what happened to him.