Because we should never forget

A big thank-you to Anonymous, commenting on my previous post about affirmative action.

Today is not Memorial Day.  It is not Veterans Day or any of the other holidays set aside for remembering those who have spent part of their lives defending my country, my freedoms, and my safety.  But it's a pretty good day to do that anyway.


Faces of the Fallen

Reported at the above site are these totals to date:

Year	Iraq	Afghanistan
2001	0	12
2002	0	49
2003	486	48
2004	849	52
2005	846	99
2006	822	98
2007	904	117
2008	314	155
2009	149	317
2010	59	469

Draw your own conclusions about the efforts abroad.  Personally, I still say going to war in Iraq was one of the most foolish US foreign policy blunders of all time.  Had the US focused 100% of its will on bin Laden and the Taliban and not gotten seduced into the idea of rebuilding Iraq in our image, things likely would be very, very different today.