One in a Million!!!!!!
I’m a millionaire! image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrphotograpic/1424263977/ Not rich.  Not yet.  But I do have 1,000,000 hits on my blog!  Yay!   Thanks to David for letting me know.  I never keep track of these things.

Op Ed — Reaction to the Fort Hood Memorial Service
The United States has been at war in Afghanistan since the fall of my second grade year, and in Iraq for half of the years I have been in school. In all that time, and in all of the years that we watched Channel One News in the mornings, we never saw a casket, never heard about the war dead or the loss of limbs, and only heard about veterans one day a year. That changed last Tuesday. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have all been President of the United States during my schooling, and all three have addressed the nation’s students in the first weeks of school. Clips of these addresses were shown on Channel One, or the existence of the speeches wa

Who is Mourning?
There was a memorial vigil at Fort Hood tonight, but I didn’t get a chance to go. I have been thinking all day about who might be mourning the soldiers who died. Do you know this Dixie Chicks song? The girl who is mourning the dead soldier (from the Vietnam War) is mourning alone under the stands at a HS football game, and no one even knows that she knew him, that she fell in love with him. President Obama and everyone else has sent their sympathies to the families of all of the people who were